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...high-priced crude also could help make this winter the most expensive in history for homeowners who heat with oil -- and costly enough to be painful for those who heat with gas. If crude stays at this level, the effects could lead to higher fares as airline fuel costs rise, and to higher prices for almost any product that is shipped by truck or rail.
Experts say other factors are continued strong world demand for oil, a disciplined restriction by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries on supplies and the decline in value of the U.S. dollar, the currency used worldwide for pricing of oil; when it's worth less, oil costs less outside the United States, discouraging conservation.