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Oil Speculation: It’s the Energy, Stupid

With the price of oil doubling in the past year, there are more fingers being pointed than solutions being offered. Unfortunately, one of the biggest “culprits” garnering much of the blame has been the oil speculators. Congress has decided to make them the scapegoat for our energy concerns, and unfortunately many under-educated members of the public are beginning to lap it up.

Speculators are speculating because there is something about which to speculate. (Let me thank my sixth-grade English instructor for teaching me how to compose that sentence.)

Remember when oil ran up back in 1979 and 1980, when the entire…

9Jul2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | Comments Off | Continued
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