The word “distortion” implies there is some “correct” price that actors in the market have moved away from. What is the correct price at any point in time? You can’t tell me. Only a market, open to anyone who wants to participate can find the price.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying the prices aren’t too high. OPEC and commies like Chaves are artificially messing with the foreign supply and idiots in our government are holding down domestic production, collaborating to keep the prices higher than they would be in a free market.
Of course. The current criminals in Washington count on the fact that the vast majority of the sheeple are economically illiterate and can be swayed by shell games like “free” healthcare, controlling “speculation”, “stimulating” the economy with pork and the like. Most people out there can’t even tell you how to make change for a dollar, let alone tell you how markets like these are supposed to function. We are so screwed!