Bernanke on the causes of the oil price surge

Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, told Congress on Tuesday that soaring oil prices were most likely the result of supply and demand factors, not speculation.

"The price of oil currently stands at about five times its level toward the beginning of this decade," Bernanke said. "Our best judgment is that this surge in prices has been driven predominantly by strong growth in underlying demand and tight supply conditions in global oil markets. Over the past several years, the world

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