[FReepaholic]

...price has soared in recent weeks to more than $100 a barrel on global demand and tensions in the Middle East...

Right. No mention of market speculators.

I wonder if the Wikileaks guys went long oil futures just before releasing this little tidbit.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Why would the U.S counsel lie on a diplomatic cable to the State Department? Maybe Saudi Arabia is literally running out gas

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Right. No mention of market speculators.” <<

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Standard argument of the “give me something for nothing” liberal whinner.

Speculators have to have a basis for speculation, or it falls flat. Study Laffer.