<![CDATA[Pirates And Oil: Will Hijackings Raise The Price Of Crude?]]>

1.0 link 144710 <![CDATA[Pirates And Oil: Will Hijackings Raise The Price Of Crude?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/18/pirates-and-oil-will-hija_n_144710.html This year has seen oil prices fly upward to record highs, but lately the trend has been much lower prices. But something could be changing that: there seem to have been increasing reports of modern-day piracy lately, including earlier this week when pirates hijacked a fully-loaded oil tanker:

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- In a dramatic escalation of high seas crime, Somali pirates hijacked a Saudi supertanker loaded with crude hundreds of miles off the coast of East Africa...

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