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Crude oil prices fell to nearly $50 a barrel Wednesday, their lowest levels since May 2005. 4 x& d8 W; q, w! A0 O4 y( R : v. l- `" D% K1 P1 uLight, sweet crude for February delivery was down 62 cents to $50.59 a barrel in mid-morning trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. ( j$ Z8 t I2 R & j- c" r: `6 l, u) YFebruary natural gas fell 7.3 cents to $6.565 per 1,000 cubic feet in New York. February heating oil was down 1.24 cents at $1.4679 a gallon. February reFORMulated gasoline futures fell 2.13 cents at $1.3480 a gallon.9 x" a5 V6 c- `* v
. ~$ V( C+ C# H! sAAA said Wednesday the average U.S. retail regular-unleaded gasoline price was $2.217 a gallon, down 0.012 cents from Tuesday.8 \8 T. h+ m2 `1 S
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& T; V3 ^) K% f/ J % `) |+ \4 I1 {5 n( B: p' H e" USource: UPI (January 17, 2007 - 9:30 AM EST)5 S9 L; R/ l, h+ T* M5 a# u