Look into this.............
oil crude was not allowed to be traded on the "futures" market until when?
clinton allowed it,to help the stock market after it was apparent it was going to suffer and investors didnt like the split of microsoft.
Now futurs trading is a funny thing,the price on a product can go up,based on suspicion the supply will be weak,or the demand will be high.
Its all a nubers game in futurs trading and is all based on specualtion.
Prior administrations had felt that affordable crude was part of national security and would not allow crud to be traded on the futures market.
Alot of liberals,actually want oil to reach high prices in a effort to force people to conserve.Fuel is intended to hit the 5 dollar mark,that the number I recall."let me be perfecrly clear,when fuel hits 5 a gallon,people are gonna want these electric cars" or something to that effect.
See,its not even in the democrates play book to keep oil low,its in thiier playbook to make oil,and all energy costs skyrocket.
to them,the end justifies the means:roll: