All Time High Oil Prices Threatening to Trigger off Inflation!

Oil is that source of energy that can said to be the foothold of modern technology. When oil flows, technology flows. We owe a lot to this natural resource that we have been blessed with. Life of the modern man would come to a standstill without it. However, the problem is that oil is a non renewable natural resource. It has got a saturation point. The demand for the resource is increasing at an alarming rate and the supply has not been able to keep up with it. The way oil became the root of a number of political and international unrest is testimonial to one and all. It is the norm of economics that when the supply of a thing fails to meet up the demand, the price increases. The same is happening in the case of oil.

 The prices of oil have reached an all time high in the recent times. Since 2003 the oil prices have never dipped. Now oil prices have reached a record high of 102.08 dollars per barrel. In spite of the sky high rates of this all important natural resource, the demand has not cut down. This consequence is only expected as there is no such natural resource that can take up the coveted place of oil. Whenever there is a rise in the oil prices, the repercussions can be seen in the prices of a number of other necessary commodities. With the hike in prices of crude oil the prices of petrol, diesel, kerosene, LPG, also increase. This in turn results in the hike in fares of all the modes of transport, thus hitting the common man in a very bad way. Further, hike in the oil prices also results in the increase in the prices of the eatables like wheat, rice, vegetables, fish, and meat as the rates of their modes of conveyance also increase.

 This cycle of the hike in the prices leads to the dangerous phenomenon called inflation. Inflation as you all know is the unprecedented hike in the prices of goods and commodities in the economy. Oil being at the base of our economy, the hike in its prices shows the effects in the entire cycle. The current rates of oil is expected to let loose inflation. Thus the cost of living of the common man would definitely shoot up.

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