At the beginning of 2020 a barrel of u. S. Crude oil cost around 60. 00 then came the coronavirus pandemic forcing states toward a lockdown and emptying streets closing businesses and shuttering factories across the nation demand dried up and the price fell to 18. 00 on monday things took a catastrophic turn for the 1st time in history u. S. Oil went into negative territory a doomsday scenario for the entire industry President Trump called the drop interesting despite the crash hitting the stock market were filling up our National Petroleum reserves through dziedzic you know the Strategic Reserves and were looking to put as much as 75000000. 00 barrels into the reserves themselves that would top it out that would be 1st time in a long time its been tapped out would get it for the right price capacity though both online and see in the United States is filling up since march stockpiles in some locations have risen by 50 percent in some places the price of fuel is now at a 10 year low dem
To get going again not all states are the same theyre very different some are having very little problem some of done such a good job they have very little problem and theyre ready to go new york is still the front line of the pandemic in the u. S. But the highest number of reported infections and deaths and even though new infections seem to have slowed in recent days hospitals there are stretched to breaking point talk to particularly is an internal medicines hospitalist in new york city he says the virus is far more contagious than many believe. I came across information maybe a month ago or so that really had a lot of the very Accurate Information about this virus recognizing this as a pandemic long before the even the w. H. O. Had and you know knowing that the casualty numbers were under reported and i think a big part was that the asymptomatic carriers were very contagious the sources knew this much before the i guess the the w. H. O. Or c. D. C. I think with the information the
Officially, treasure. Theres fierce criticism here of the decision to suspend parliament for more than 4 weeks. Requested by the Prime Minister and approved by the queen it means members of parliament who want to prevent the uk leaving the European Union without a deal, have even less time to do that. For some, its a constitutional crisis, some critics use the word coup for others its a way to shortcut years of prevarication about brexit. Borisjohnson says it means he can get on with his agenda for the future. This from bbc Political Editor laura kuennsberg. Shutting up shop at the Prime Ministers request, the gates will clang shut here for an extra few days next month. Debates wont take place, mps wont vote or stand in the way of borisjohnson. We are bringing forward a new legislative programme on crime, on hospitals, and making sure that we have the Education Funding that we need. And there will be ample time on both sides of that crucial october the 17th summit, ample time, in parli
Theres fierce criticism here of the decision to suspend parliament for more than four weeks. Requested by the Prime Minister and approved by the queen, it means members of parliament who want to prevent the uk leaving the European Union without a deal, have even less time to do that. For some, its a constitutional crisis, some critics use the word coup. For others its a way to shortcut years of prevarication about brexit. Borisjohnson says it means he can get on with his agenda for the future. This from bbc Political Editor laura kuenssberg. Shutting up shop at the Prime Ministers request, the gates will clang shut here for an extra few days next month. Debates wont take place, mps wont vote or stand in the way of borisjohnson. We are bringing forward a new legislative programme on crime, on hospitals, and making sure that we have the Education Funding that we need. And there will be ample time on both sides of that crucial october the 17th summit, ample time, in parliament for mps to
Theres fierce criticism here of the decision to suspend parliament for more than four weeks. Requested by the Prime Minister, approved by the queen, it means members of parliament who want to prevent the uk leaving the European Union without a deal have even less time to do that. For some, its a constitutional crisis, some critics use the word coup for others its a way to shortcut years of prevarication about brexit. Borisjohnson says it means he can get on with his agenda for the future. This from bbc Political Editor laura kuenssberg. Shutting up shop at the Prime Ministers request, the gates will clang shut here for an extra few days next month. Debates wont take place, mps wont vote or stand in the way of borisjohnson. We are bringing forward a new legislative programme on crime, on hospitals, and making sure that we have the Education Funding that we need. And there will be ample time on both sides of that crucial october the 17th summit, ample time, in parliament for mps to debat