{"id":1441,"date":"2007-11-07T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T02:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2009-03-29T19:49:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T11:49:20","slug":"1436-of-usd250-per-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"[1436] Of USD250 per barrel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What the&#8230; ? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.env-econ.net\/2007\/11\/future-expectat.html\" target=\"_blank\">Via<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Energy consumers and speculators are scrambling to take out options contracts to insure themselves against oil prices rising above $100 a barrel \u2014 a further sign of growing expectations of a spike in the crude market.<\/p>\n<p>Some have even taken out contracts to protect themselves against prices rising to $250 a barrel in the next two years&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/d5a8517a-8bdd-11dc-af4d-0000779fd2ac.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Scramble to insure against more oil price rises<\/em><\/a>. Financial Times. November 5 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder when the famed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Simon-Ehrlich_wager&amp;oldid=165062467\" target=\"_blank\">Simon-Ehrlich wager<\/a> will be invoked!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the&#8230; ? Via: Energy consumers and speculators are scrambling to take out options contracts to insure themselves against oil prices rising above $100 a barrel \u2014 a further sign of growing expectations of a spike in the crude market. Some have even taken out contracts to protect themselves against prices rising to $250 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[192,417],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-crude-oil","tag-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}