Word: cartellization
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That becomes more urgent with every boost in OPEC prices, and the increases now occur with taunting frequency. Since last December the cartel has increased prices by 61%. Now Nigeria, Algeria and Libya appear to be preparing to raise their price of oil by as much as $5 per bbl. If they do, the $23.50 "ceiling" that OPEC set only last June will be shattered, and the cost of all petroleum products, including heating oil, will move up yet another notch...
...weather of last year that cut into harvests in the citrus belt. Government economists also argue that price gouging by foreign oil producers is exogenous. True, but only partly so. Not only did inflation in the industrial countries encourage the 13-nation OPEC cartel to quintuple its prices in 1973-74, but the accelerating U.S. price spiral provides the cartel with its only excuse for raising its prices still higher...
Since the transactions reflect the real price that buyers are willing to pay, the deals are closely watched by OPEC members for signs that the cartel's long-term prices could be increased. Spot prices have eased from a peak of $42 per bbl. in late May to about $30 to $32 per bbl., but fears of production cuts have stopped the slide...
Oilmen also accuse Nigeria of unabashed price gouging. Though cartel members agreed in June not to tack surcharges on top of the maximum $23.50 per bbl. for their crude, Nigeria for weeks has been demanding a $5 per bbl. premium on as much as half of its exports...
About the only good that can come from the cartel's new squeeze would be to help keep the U.S. from dozing off in the face of the worsening petro-peril...