[varon]

If prices are supply - demand driven, then why isn't all the ethanol production increasing supply and at least stabilizing prices? I'm reading articles, for Christ's sake, that are blaming food shortages due to conversion of corn from food uses to gasoline production. So what gives?

Could it be that the continuous purchasing of oil to be placed in our national emergency reserves is sustaining a high demand?

Could it be that continuous and expanded military operations are taking oil away from the civilian market?

Or, could it be that supply and demand have nothing to do with current prices and that they are controlled and contrived by speculators with the government's blessings???

[Intimidator]

I suspect all three.