There was a good piece in The Times online on Dec 23 by Carl Mortished -my machine cannot download for some reason. It says that Opec is determined to keep the price above $50 during 2006 which reinforces previous statements from the organisation. It would not be surprising if oil were to hit $70 over the next few weeks but it would be bad all round ifit were to maintain that level for too long as the world economy would be damaged and Goon Brown would further raise NS taxes above the levels he has already theatened.