Today, Apple and Google are as inflammable as oil futures, showing daily volatility of 2 to 4 percent.
As the oil price is currently showing, that's not guaranteed.
Chevron released an interim production update on Wednesday, showing both oil production and refining in the first two months of the first quarter compared to the previous quarter.
But despite booming oil revenues, Venezuela's basic infrastructure is showing signs of wear and tear.
Last November I discussed double bottom formations on crude oil ( see chart) and many stocks were also showing potential double bottom formations.
Jessica Wu, a Los Angeles dermatologist and author of "Feed Your Face, " a book about nutrition and food-based topical treatments for skin, says "there is very little in the way of clinical trials" showing the anti-aging benefits of grapeseed oil.
Sectors that are showing job growth - engineering, aerospace and the oil and gas industries - require specialised skills, and these haven't seen a rise in the number of applications.
You know, polls clearly showing that a majority of Americans now favor allowing more oil and gas drilling off the U.S. coast.
With consumer demand showing signs of weakness at current prices, the upside in oil prices appears limited for now.
China released customs data for September showing higher imports of commodities in general, and record imports of crude oil in particular.
Monday's decline in oil prices follows the release of a transcript of the Federal Reserve's December meeting showing that policymakers disagreed over how long to keep a bond-purchase program in place.
Showing that there are no doubts about the importance of deepwater drilling in the oil and gas industry, General Electric announced a plan to purchase 100% of subsea pipeline manufacturer Wellstream Holdings .
He made a respectable showing in the 2005 election, gaining notoriety with a promise to pay cash handouts from oil revenues to every citizen.
He pulls out a chart showing the price of credit default swaps on Glencore (a Swiss firm and the biggest oil trader not part of an oil company).
In 2001, Ron Oligney and I published a graph showing unambiguously that for the prior 35 years all negative job growth periods correlated directly to oil supply disruptions.
With the oil price bouncing back up again, nearly a third since spring, and with global food prices showing alarming signs of a surge, the news from SSE's Perth headquarters will not be welcome among those wrestling with Britain's economic woes.
And yes, I too saw the survey on CNBC showing that 53% of consumers say that their spending habits are already being affected by higher oil prices.
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However, Russia's current president, Vladimir Putin, has made life much tougher for western oil firms by restricting exploration by foreign outfits, making conditions stricter for joint-venture partners, and showing what would happen to dissenters with the dismemberment of Yukos.
Though a program displays panels showing all the critical processes of a real rig (fire and gas detectors, valve status, oil flow from the sea bed and so on), and then responds to the actions of the trainee by altering these displays appropriately, a human operator can intervene at any time if things seem to be going too smoothly.
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