Crude oil, gasoline, natural gas, home heating oil close up [UPDATE] NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The price for a barrel of crude oil added 40 cents to settle at $94.60 a barrel Friday on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gasoline added 5 cents to settle at $2.55 a gallon. Home heating oil picked up 3 cents to close at $2.87 a gallon. Natural gas rose 4 cents to $3.56 per million British thermal unit. At the pump, the national average price of unleaded gasoline dropped to $3.211 per gallon, down from Thursday's $3.222, the AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report said