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Price of crude oil slides slightly

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Published: Nov. 24, 2009 at 6:40 PM
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NEW YORK, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Crude oil dipped under $76 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange Monday, the first time in more than a month prices have fallen to that level.

In New York, light, sweet crude dropped $1.53 to $75.92 per barrel. Heating oil prices lost 0.0256 cents to $1.9488 per gallon. Reformulated gasoline prices dropped 0.038 cents to $1.939 per gallon. Natural gas prices rose 0.016 cents to $4.486 per million British thermal units.

At the pump, the national average price of unleaded gasoline was $2.638 per gallon Tuesday, down from Monday's $2.64, AAA said.

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