Pricey Times: Record energy prices may be prelude to a fall (Winston-Salem Journal)
NEW YORK - Oil’s run to nearly $100 a barrel this year jacked up the cost of travel, clothing, beauty products and milk, and many analysts say they think that fuel prices will remain at historically lofty levels throughout 2008. But record energy prices could sow the seeds of their own destruction. Along with the housing crisis, they are contributing to an economic slowdown that is sapping the …
