Oil Closes Below $50, Lowest Price Since May 2005
After rising to dizzying heights this summer, the oil market is suffering a hair-raising drop with no apparent end in sight.
Oil prices fell to their lowest level in more than three years, falling below $50 a barrel on Thursday, after shedding close to $100 in four months [...]

A new report warns that plans by Tri-State Generation and Transmission to build another 700-megawatt coal plant in either Kansas or Colorado could significantly burden rate payers.
Tri-State is a wholesale supplier for 44 electric cooperatives in four states, including 18 in Colorado, 12 in New Mexico, eight in Wyoming and six in Nebraska.
The report, compiled [...]

United States - By Tom Doggett
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. heating season gets underway, the average price that homeowners paid for heating oil was $3.67 per gallon this week, the government said Wednesday.
The nationwide heating oil price is 90 cents higher than a year ago, according the federal Energy Information Administration’s weekly [...]

By Brian Blackwell
Southeast Missourian
Gas prices at the pump continue to rise in Southeast Missouri, in spite of the fact that the price of wholesale gasoline was $2.45 and crude oil was less than $100 a barrel by mid-afternoon Wednesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
While motorists may be left scratching their heads about why they [...]