[carl in alaska]

Energy stocks are hot today; oil is up $1.83 per barrel as of 30 minutes ago. Something must be heating up with Iran. The fundamentals for oil are not that good without Iran in the picture, so this is probably Iran again. I'm trying to find out what happened.

[jec41]

Futures contracts. It will reach 70 a barrel this year and decline some. Right now we have the largest reserves in years and they are building them higher. Something coming down the pike in the future or is expected.