Oil hits record $100 a barrel

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• NEW: White House says it will not tap Strategic Petroleum Reserve
  
• Violence in Nigeria helped give crude the final push to $100
  
• Oil prices are within the range of inflation-adjusted highs set in early 1980
  
• OPEC says member nations may not be able to meet demand as early as 2024
  
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