Dartz Wrote:The speculators on Wall street driving up the price of a barrel of oil by taking consistently long positions without bothering to go short?Drillers, tanker operators, refiners, and all the other middlemen.
What is it, $5 a gallon in the States now, of which 46c goes to ye're government and 7c goes to the garage. Where's the other 4:50 go?
(And it's just above $5 a gallon in Canada - about $1.25 per litre, depending on where you are and which fuel station you patronize. It's cheaper in the States.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012