"The speculators are setting us up again -- this time to kill alternative energy development in the United States. A $25 / barrel tax on crude oil would be a good thing." http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/merrill/2009/02/crude-oil-speculators-and-mort.php Speculators sure are evil, acting in concert to manipulate prices and all. I wonder who the conductor of the orchestration is. I would like to attend the secret meetings where all the speculators say that it is time to destroy alternative energy. Some people must be drinking something entirely different and tasty because they keep on drinking it.