Well Duh: Relaxed Regulations and Exploding Speculation Cause Wildly Fluctuating Gas Prices

September 1st, 2009 admin

But from an another point of view, are wild oil price fluctuations really all that bad? In my experience, it doesn’t take a higher degree and advanced knowledge of oil economics to see that rampant speculation is behind the crazy swings in oil prices we’ve seen in recent years. Even so, it’s a topic that economists and pundits have debated ad nauseum


Originally posted on gas2

 
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