Sentences with phrase «volatile oil prices»

It will protect us from volatile oil prices and provide consumers with cleaner fuels and provide the nation with greater energy security.

Schlumberger (slb), the oil and gas services giant, has a dominant market share and stable underlying businesses, but its relationship to volatile oil prices buffets the stock quite a bit.

As a standalone company, Marathon Oil Corp can not count on its downstream division to keep it going; it is at the mercy of volatile oil prices.

Because headline CPI includes food and energy prices, TIPS can also be affected — for better or worse — by volatile oil prices.

The only real, long - term solution to protect Americans from volatile oil prices is to drastically reduce our oil consumption.

Volatile oil prices have been a headache for the industry in recent years, as they've moved from US$ 147 a barrel in June 2008 to just US$ 40 six months later, to their current price just above US$ 80.

Washington is unable to create the conditions for long - term investments because 1) election cycles create short horizons, and 2) the economics of future energy policies are often linked to volatile oil prices.

Volatile oil prices and the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East are vivid reminders of the rising cost of America's oil use.

The Fed's preferred inflation gauge has moved up to 1.9 percent, though that partly owes to volatile oil prices and part of the move could prove transitory.