Five Ways the Government Could Make Oil Prices Fall

Daily Finance (AOL) ^ | 3/08/11, 2:50 pm | Joseph Lazzaro

[no-to-illegals]

Thank You for all of your pings. In looking at all the information, my realization is how uninformed I am. Thank you for the updates.

[no-to-illegals]

Thank You Proud Canadian, your views most reflect mine. Your ideas create jobs, and lowers some food prices by abolishing ethanol programs.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Thanks. But it's kind of easy if one focuses on supply rather than demand. There is an abundant supply of energy in North America. All that is needed is the political will to exploit it.

Canada and Mexico have more political will to extract the resource and sell it than the US does. Mexico is losing the political will to maintain and expand their energy sector. It is becoming a narco state, sustained by drug sales, not legitimate commodity production and sale.

The green faction in the US is trying to sap Canada's political will, or at least close the US market off to Canadian oilsands production and pipelines.