That’s the ticket!
Bring back the even/odd days to buy gas. Obama can create a new federal bureaucracy to police the stations, administered by Big Sis.
It’s the...umm...the Obama Even-Flo Gas Plan, named after the baby bottle.
When Lehmans went under it had contracts for millions of barrels of oil and gasoline. Speculators can and do influence prices. George Soros though speculation and short-selling almost destroyed the British financial system. Lehmans was destroyed by unregulated short-selling, not bad management. Speculators can have a behind-the-door agreement to sell between each other, running up a price, then selling, artificially inflating the price.
It happens all the time.