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Cheap Oil!

—By Kevin Drum

| Thu Dec. 3, 2009 9:35 AM PST

A headline today from CNN Money:

Why cheap oil is here to stay

Bruce Bartlett says this must mean that oil prices are due for a runup. Sounds right to me.

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