UK 石油 prices 始める，決める to ratchet higher as 天然のまま oil 急に上がるs on world market

By Adrian Lowery
Updated: 14:00 BST, 23 February 2012

Turning off the taps: Iran could 封鎖する oil 供給（する）s to the West

The world oil price crept up to nine-month highs of more than $124 per バーレル／樽 today raising 恐れるs that struggling Western economies could be 攻撃する，衝突する with higher input costs.

Brent 天然のまま ? the （判断の）基準 for oil prices in Europe ? was 貿易（する）ing $1.27 higher at $124.27 after U.N. 視察官s sent to visit Iran's 核の 取り付け・設備s 宣言するd their 使節団 a 失敗.

開始するing 緊張s over Iran’s 核の 力／強力にする programme ? and 恐れるs the shipping タンカー 大勝する through the 海峡 of Hormuz could be 封鎖するd ? have 誘発する／引き起こすd sharp rises in oil prices since last week.

‘Geopolitical 危険s are on the rise, with the 増大するing 緊張s about Iran manifesting itself in a 一連の proxy wars, while a messy end-game is becoming ますます likely,’ Barclays 分析家s said in a 公式文書，認める.

‘With 極端に 限られた／立憲的な 衝撃を和らげるものs to 吸収する any one of the 一連の 可能性のある geopolitical 事故s, the 背景 of the oil market is getting uneasy.’

Brent 天然のまま is now 23 per cent higher than the $104 dollars a バーレル／樽 it was 貿易（する）ing at just before Christmas.

The 急に上がるing oil price does not bode 井戸／弁護士席 for British 運転者s, who are already struggling with sky-high 石油 and ディーゼル prices.

ディーゼル is at an 史上最高 of 143.16p a litre, によれば the AA. Two years ago, it was below 114p.

モーターing ロビー groups have harness the 開始するing discontent to call for 燃料 義務 削減（する）s from （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 George Osborne in next month’s 予算.

The disruption in Middle East oil 供給（する）s is likely to outweigh 恐れるs of lower 需要・要求する this year from western economies 苦しむing a 減産／沈滞, and 原因（となる） その上の rises in 燃料 prices before 復活祭

産業 分析家s are 予報するing that rises in the price of oil over the past month could 追加する as much as 7p a litre to 石油 prices.

‘This could 増加する spending on 石油 by around £15 a month for the 普通の／平均（する） 世帯,’ said 経済学者 Darren Winder from stockbroker Oriel 安全s.

人物／姿／数字s from the U.S. showed that in the past ten days, hedge 基金s and 相場師s have been stoking the 天然のまま oil price frenzy, buying 供給（する）s to try to cash in on continuing 増加するs.

‘The 支配する of thumb used to be that a $2 rise in the price of a バーレル／樽 of oil 追加するd 1p a litre to pump prices,’ said an AA 広報担当者.

‘But that has been thrown to the 勝利，勝つd by 思索的な activity.’

More than half the 燃料 used by 乗り物s in the UK is now ディーゼル. 普通の／平均（する） 石油 prices at? 135.54p a litre are 5 per cent higher than a year ago, but are still below the 137.43p 頂点（に達する） in May last year.

緊張 over Iran has 連合させるd with 供給（する） 問題／発行するs from Yemen, Nigeria, South Sudan and Syria to 燃料 需要・要求する.

The 告示 by Iran that it is to 停止（させる） 輸出（する）s of 天然のまま oil to the UK and フラン pre-empted European 許可／制裁s ? which would have banned 輸入するs anyway from July 1.

分析家s believe that 供給（する） disruptions in South Sudan, Yemen and Syria, accounting for 0.7m バーレル／樽s a day, are more likely to be the real 運動 behind the price 引き上げ（る）.

In a 公式文書，認める to （弁護士の）依頼人s, Soci?t? G?n?rale 分析家s said the price could 攻撃する，衝突する $130 by the third ４半期/4分の1 of the year, when the ‘Iran 影響’ will really 沈む in.

The bank said: ‘The 底（に届く） line is that 天然のまま flows are 負かす／撃墜する by 1.3m バーレル／樽s a day.’

The oil price is also 存在 helped higher by a 女性 dollar, which makes dollar-denominated 商品／必需品s such as 天然のまま oil cheaper for other 通貨 支えるもの／所有者s.

The dollar has 弱めるd versus the euro this year from about 79 euro cents イオン January to its 現在の level of about 75.5 cents.???