Even though crude oil prices have been soft recently, crude oil production and exports from the U.S. continue to grow. Crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange closed at $52.64 Wednesday another daily decline – the seventh consecutive – and down about $8 from several weeks ago following the…
Alex Mills is the former President of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers. The Alliance is the largest state oil and gas associations in the nation with more than 3,000 members in 305 cities and 28 states.
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