Natural gas futures are hovering at six-month lows, in the mid-high US$7 range, on the NYMEX. The National Post has arrived at an interesting bit of statistic from among the reams of gas price data.

A story in this paper said:

The premium being paid for oil over natural gas in the US on an energy equivalent basis has not been this wide in 18 years.

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