That popping you hear - it's the oil bubble
The Energy Department reported a big increase in crude oil, propane/propylene and gasoline inventories last week, with a small 500,000 barrel drop in distillate fuel inventories. Total commercial petroleum inventories rose by a whopping 19.6 million barrels and refinery activity rebounded above the 80% level for the first week since Hurricane Ike. Meanwhile, on the demand side, total products supplied was down 8.6% compared to the same period last year with distillate demand down the most at 8.3%.

