Whats Really Driving The High Price Of Oil?

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Deborah Fineman, president of Mitchell Supreme Fuel Co. in Orange, New Jersey, summed up the scene: "Energy markets have been dictated for too long by hedge funds and speculators, who artificially manipulate the numbers for their own benefit. The current market isn't based on the sound... more

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Rated by IW84NO1 on Jun 06 2008, 8:15pm

Deborah Fineman, president of Mitchell Supreme Fuel Co. in Orange, New Jersey, summed up the scene: "Energy markets have been dictated for too long by hedge funds and speculators, who artificially manipulate the numbers for their own benefit. The current market isn't based on the sound principles of supply and demand but it is being rigged by companies and speculators who are jacking up prices for their own greed."
Rated by virtualnite on Jun 04 2008, 11:40am

"Historically, oil has been afflicted with the control of monopolists. From the late nineteenth century days of John D. Rockefeller, and his Standard Oil monopoly, to the emergence of the "Seven Sisters" oligopoly, made up of Standard Oil, Shell, BP, Texaco, Mobil, Gulf and Socal, to the rise of OPEC representing the major producing countries, the "free market" price of oil has been a mirage. Despite the breakup of the Standard Oil company by the government's trustbusters about 100 years ago, selling cartels and buying oligopolies kept reasserting themselves."

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