Crude oil futures traders work on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008. One day after oil prices briefly rose to $100 for the first time, the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said crude inventories fell by 4 million barrels last week, much more than the 1.7 million barrel decline analysts surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires, on average, had expected. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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