Here’s What Happened When This Journalist Attempted To Buy A Literal Barrel Of Oil

A worker pours liquid oil into a barrel at the delayed coker unit of the Duna oil refinery operated by MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Plc in Szazhalombatta, Hungary, on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. Hungary refiner Mol may take part in oil exploration in Montenegro after country calls tender in July, daily Magyar Hirlap says. Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg

Energy Here’s What Happened When This Journalist Attempted To Buy A Literal Barrel Of Oil No, this is not the plot of an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. A reporter truly tried to buy a barrel of oil. Crude, that is. Tracy Alloway, executive editor at Bloomberg Markets,

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