Here's What Costs More Than A Barrel of Crude Oil Right Now

Oil prices continued their fall Thursday, coming in at $29.6/barrel at press time.

For some context, here's what's now more expensive than black gold.

1.Getting the oil changed on your car.

2.Enough KFC for a family of four.

3.The barrel oil comes in.

4.A pair of Crocs.

For more brain blasts, look at oil like this.

1.The last time oil prices were this low, Saddam Hussein was alive and Saudi Arabia led oil exports with around 7 million barrels a day. Now, the U.S. leads oil exports with 12.5 million barrels a day.

2.For the cost of 18 barrels of oil, you can park for a month in downtown Manhattan.

3.A standard Rolls-Royce Phantom is worth 14, 116 barrels of oil.

4.A barrel of oil is 42 gallons. 42 gallons of bottled water cost around $53, as much as 1.8 barrels of oil.

5.A barrel of oil costs less than a pair of jeans from Target (after tax).

6.For the cost of a pair of Lululemon leggings, you could buy three barrels of oil and get the same effect by dipping your legs in crude.

On Wednesday, Benzinga reported that the OECD chairman stated that markets were in worse shape than prior to 2008 following a 24.2 percent drop in the U.S. Oil Fund LP ETF.

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