WITNESS: So, he asked me, when will oil come down?
By Daniel Fineren
Daniel Fineren is a senior energy correspondent who has worked with Reuters for two years. In a previous job he lived in Barcelona, covering the Spanish energy industry, and he now reports on European power and gas markets in London.
MADRID (Reuters) - I sank into my seat in the air-conditioned taxi. Heading home from the World Petroleum Congress, exhausted by days pestering top oil producers about when prices might come down, I gazed at the parched scrubland around Madrid.
"Tell me," the taxi driver interrupted. "When are fuel prices going to fall?"
He peered accusingly in the rear-view mirror.
"Every day they just go up and up. But when are they going to go down?"
That question again. Continued...
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