[IrishMike]

The fireworks in your back yard didn't drive oil up over $75 per barrell.

[r9etb]

The fireworks in your back yard didn't drive oil up over $75 per barrell

And neither did Kim Jong Il's fireworks do that ... the oil prices were driven up by nervous commodities traders.

[Kenny Bunk]

OTOH, the oil jocks could use the impending Camel Hair and Cashmere Crisis in Baluchistan to do whatever they want with the price of this commodity, which is in such huge supply world-wide that if it were not for the artificial bottlenecks they impose, such as limiting refinery capability, it might sell for $7.50 per barrel, rather than $75.

Commodity traders .... ya gotta love'em. An outbreak of psoriasis in Oregon and sow belly futures go teats up!