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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

With the rise in global crude oil production and relative political stability in the major oil producing nations, particularly Iraq and Libya, the price of crude oil has fallen from above $100 a barrel to around $50 a barrel in just a year. This is the first post in a two part series on the “Changing Face of Manufacturing.”

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How the Bakken Oil Boom Impacts U.S. Supply Chains

CH Robinson Transportfolio

They recently calculated that North Dakota just topped an average output of 1 million barrels of oil per day. The oil and gas industry impacts freight transportation in four significant areas: Diesel Prices. And it has all happened incredibly quickly. Typically, you can get 19 gallons of gasoline out of a barrel of oil. average.