The ONLY thing that really will effect the price of a gallon is the FUTURE price. ONLY THING. Speculation is a fact of life in our current method of trade. Yea, the speculators drive up the price. WANNA fix this crap, pass laws limiting how they purchase. Do you realize you can buy the option on a million gallons of gas and only have the capital to pay for 1 tenth of it........then RIDE the price, and THEN SELL.........

With the advent of day trading, and internet trading, it is so easy to make HUGE dollars by driving up the price of a gallon of gas. Guys sitting at home on a daily basis are trading futures UP over the real price. They do it without the capital, and trade it down without the capital.

FIX the speculative nature of this market........maybe RULES against oil speculation. The only reason it exists in the first place is because of government intervention 100 years ago. Speculative trading is very important to the flow of commodities. This is what keeps things like Corn and Cattle and such from fluctuating by DOLLARS per year instead of cents..........

A good bit of information.............Futures trading for Oil and GAS plummeted today........

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-...11-713260.html

This is the ONLY thing that will effect the price of the product.

Later,

Geo