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Crude oil prices drop Wednesday

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Published: Dec. 2, 2009 at 6:57 PM
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NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices dropped to lower than $77 per barrel as equity markets fell flat in New York Wednesday.

On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude prices lost $1.17 to $76.72 per barrel. Heating oil prices lost 0.0244 cents to $2.0386 per gallon. Reformulated gasoline prices dropped 0.0241 cents to $1.9989 per gallon. Natural gas prices shed 0.137 cents to $4.55 per million British thermal units.

At the pump, the national average price of unleaded gasoline was $2.629 per gallon Wednesday, up from Tuesday's $2.627, AAA said.

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