The high prices of recent years are partly a legacy of that glut, insofar as OPEC, still leery of over-investment, allowed its cushion of spare capacity to dwindle to almost nothing, heightening supply concerns.Unfortunately for oil consumers, OPEC has little incentive to expand that cushion in the short term.
Burger King, Nestle, Tesco and now Ikea – the European horse meat scandal that has heightened food supply concerns for the last month has now reached the furniture giant's famed Swedish meatballs.
The September contract for U.S. crude fell back under $49 per barrel after hitting a new high this morning, as violence in Iraq heightens supply concerns.
With no medication permitted in his system, so close to a race, Carlton House will have the affected area hosed and iced and wrapped, to heighten blood supply and so accelerate the healing process.
In that report, the Labor Department said higher energy costs accounted for almost all of the increase in the Producer Price Index, which was up 0.7 percent in March, when prices for a barrel of crude oil reached levels not seen since September 2008, partly as turmoil in the Middle East heightened perceptions that supplies could be disrupted.
The report, released after the market closed on Tuesday, heightened concerns about potential supply shortages later this year.
Concern about gas and oil supplies had heightened after Russia's decision at the start of 2006 to halt gas supplies to neighbouring Ukraine revived memories of the Cold War.
Given that agriculture accounts for roughly 85% of US consumptive water use, growing water demands with relatively fixed water supplies have heightened conflicts over agricultural allocations in water-short years.
Every move a president makes costs money, and in an era when money is in short supply, that means heightened scrutiny.
Fears about failings in the food supply chain were heightened in early 2013 when horse DNA was found in frozen beefburgers sold by Tesco, Iceland (traces), Aldi and Lidl.
