http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/05/25/another-regulatory-failure-or-just-a-conspiracy-theory/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:44:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/05/25/another-regulatory-failure-or-just-a-conspiracy-theory/#comment-313955 Vern Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:29:40 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/?p=6455#comment-313955 I'm inclined to believe that the truth is somewhere in the middle. While it wouldn't be surprising is regulatory bodies failed, nor even if the high cost of energy was manufactured in back rooms in the halls of power, it usually takes a combination of both factors to drive prices up so high and keep them that way, as they have been for years now. It's more likely that regulatory oversight has simply allowed <a href="http://netpicks.com/Futures_Trading.html" rel="nofollow">futures trading</a> to get out of hand. If we follow the money and find out who is holding all those futures, we'd have a much better picture of what's actually going on. Everyone seems to know how to investigate conspiracies these days, but nobody who can actually help the public has ever seemed to do so... I’m inclined to believe that the truth is somewhere in the middle. While it wouldn’t be surprising is regulatory bodies failed, nor even if the high cost of energy was manufactured in back rooms in the halls of power, it usually takes a combination of both factors to drive prices up so high and keep them that way, as they have been for years now. It’s more likely that regulatory oversight has simply allowed futures trading to get out of hand. If we follow the money and find out who is holding all those futures, we’d have a much better picture of what’s actually going on. Everyone seems to know how to investigate conspiracies these days, but nobody who can actually help the public has ever seemed to do so…

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