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Oil prices aren’t reacting drastically to supply and demand changes

Aug 9, 2019
Amid Middle East tensions and the U.S.-China trade war, the price of oil is not wildly different from 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Oil wells at sunset in Moorpark, California as seen in 2009.
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