This certainly helps my “too many speculators are bad” theory.
Nothing has happened to change the supply or the demand, but prices are still going up up up based on news of what MIGHT happen in the future. Isn’t that the definition of speculation?
But yeah, speculation has nothing to do with oil going from $70 to $145.
US oil reserves were lower than expected as well.
Plus, most of the business news from CNN, MSNBC, ect is water-downed bullshit fed to readers who will believe anything they read in the news.
When you take the time to read the reports yourself, you see how the journalists always focus on the simplest aspect and write about that.
Oil prices fell more than $4 a barrel on Monday as traders returning from the holiday weekend reacted to a stronger dollar and an apparent lessening of fears about Mideast tension.
Light sweet crude for August delivery fell $4.22 to $141.07
^^ exactly how i have looked at this situation all the way through…
it has nothing to do with the price of barrels of oil, it has to do with the CONCEPT of supply and demand, but there isnt a shortage! we are just getting bent over
if oil had really been going up at the rate it did, why did gas stay the same for multiple weeks?
Oil is a raw material for refined gas. Not the product itself. When the price of metal goes up, it doesn’t immediately effect the price of cars, but sooner or later, it will.