Crude, Heating Oil, Gasoline Start Day Up
October 23, 2007
Prices for crude oil, heating oil and gasoline all began the Tuesday trading session higher on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The price for a barrel of crude oil was $86.24, up 0.22 cents, in midmorning trading on the exchange.
Heating oil was up 0.0076 cents to $83.31 a gallon, while gasoline gained 0.0028 cents to $2.11362 in midmorning trading.
Natural gas was the only energy commodity that began the day down, off 0.117 cents to $6.774 per million British thermal units.
At the pump, the AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report showed the price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was $2.820 Tuesday, up from $2.819 reported Monday.