Jason Kelly submits: Overview Benefit From Even Higher Oil Prices | If oil country unrest worsens, the price of oil will rise further and so will these investments. Benefit From Interest in Alternative Energy | Expensive oil always reinvigorates the alternative energy sector, and these investments ... By Devon Shire : A few years ago I set out to find the best investments I could to take advantage of higher oil prices. I looked at deepwater producers, international producers and oil sands producers. Eventually I settled on investing in tight oil producers where I believed the stock market was ... The fear of even higher oil prices is more of a threat to the economy today than oil prices at their current levels, says Morningstar's Bob Johnson.<br/><br/><b>[0:00:15]</b> ... Johnson, director of economic analysis, for his take on the effect of <b>oil</b> <b>prices</b> on the economy. Thanks for joining me, Bob. Bob Johnson : Great to be here. Stipp : So, let's put this in ... <br/><b>[0:01:28]</b> ... that flows back to the U.S. In other words, if gas or <b>oil</b> <b>prices</b> go up, money goes away from the consumer to the oil companies who may reinvest it in new shale projects and other ... <br/><b>[0:03:22]</b> ... a little sense on where those things might be falling in the <b>price</b> <b>of</b> <b>oil</b>? Johnson : Egypt caused some price situations already, and Egypt doesn't produce any oil. There was some worry about the Suez Canal, but that caused one jump up in the price. Then Libya came along, and that caused an even bigger move in the <b>price</b> <b>of</b> <b>oil</b>. But believe it or not, Jason, Libya is only 2% of the world's supply. So it's not like its massive, but what people are worried about is if it moves on from Libya to say Saudi Arabia ... and I say this number again and again, we use about 85 million barrels a day. 10 million of that comes from Saudi Arabia. So that's a big deal. If that were to disappear overnight, that would cause a huge acceleration in the <b>price</b> <b>of</b> <b>oil</b>. Stipp : So certainly part of that jump that we're seeing right now is due to the fears of what might happen ... <br/><b>[0:05:23]</b> ... punches right now, when do you start to get worried that the <b>price</b> <b>of</b> <b>oil</b> is really going to start to have an impact on the consumer. At what point does the oil price level really concern you? ... <br/> Aaron Foster submits: Recent turmoil in the Middle East and its effect on oil prices has dominated headlines of almost every major news publication this month. The protests that started in Tunisia and Egypt earlier this year have inspired rebellious behavior in other nearby countries. Although war ... *** enter disclosure *** By Devon Shire : A few years ago, I set out to find the best investments I could to take advantage of higher oil prices. I looked at deepwater producers, international producers and oil sands producers. Eventually, I settled on investing in tight oil producers where I believed the stock market was ... By Trade In Mexico : Callon Petroleum ( CPE ) shares spent this summer climbing higher, fueled by the rally in oil prices. But that appears to be unraveling now and the price of oil has actually dropped about 9% in just about four weeks. Callon Petroleum shares rallied from about $3.80 in June to ... By Kraken : The price of oil has fallen to the mid 80's. Many analysts are saying that a slowdown would drop the price even further. Oil companies will continue to be profitable, but with lower oil prices, it would mean lower margins for these companies. However, the following oil and services ... Cullen Roche submits: Interesting findings from Goldman Sachs with regards to oil prices. This comes from a recent research report from their Commodities Research Team. In July of 2008 Goldman Sachs famously said the price of oil was not being distorted by speculators. After a 75% decline in prices ... MINSK, March 22 (Reuters) - Minsk has asked Moscow to lower crude oil prices that have spiked on the back of political unease in the Arab world, a spokeswoman of Belarus holding, Belneftekhim, told Reuters on Tuesday.