7 B4 A9 S: D% Q! p5 A* d4 wCrude oil prices fell to nearly $50 a barrel Wednesday, their lowest levels since May 2005. 2 s0 ^- s. c, n! F4 [) ? 3 Y+ z6 J X$ OLight, sweet crude for February delivery was down 62 cents to $50.59 a barrel in mid-morning trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. 1 T1 g' t8 A# }( C5 h" i9 {$ r. q1 `! K) `) H( K
February 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. p( J; g) o: F& n/ R) ]4 |: E
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AAA said Wednesday the average U.S. retail regular-unleaded gasoline price was $2.217 a gallon, down 0.012 cents from Tuesday., p. c1 j7 C1 B/ g