That’s not environmentalists but people wantig to get rid of oil dependency and longing for more efficiency. Nothing bad with that.
What makes Soy expensive is a thing called derivatives. There’s those who trade soy and those who need soy. They both could get along quite well.
Then there’s those trading the options to buy on a certain date on a cerain price. These guys make the most of the money nowadays - it’s not soy that is to rare or biofuel that uses to much soy - it’s the high price for derivative contracts - and that’s an indirect result of the cheap dollar.
It’s inflation in just another dress.
Not true. There are those that speculate with futures contracts, but every buyer has a seller, and every seller a buyer. Unless you can actually make delivery or take delivery of soy beans, you must clear your speculative position before the contract date. It is a zero sum game for speculators. They keep the market price fluid, but cannot really change the overall price--that is all supply and demand driven. Cheap dollar also has no impact. Where in the world did you get such strange ideas about the commodity markets?
How does that work?
Then there’s those trading the options to buy on a certain date on a cerain price. These guys make the most of the money nowadays
How does an option buyer make money? Who does he buy the option from?
There’s nothing wrong with “oil dependency” - why do you think it’s on the planet in the first place? (for us to USE)
The problem is that the enviros won’t let us use our OWN oil, and are basically Luddites who want everyone (except themselves) to have a reduced lifestyle.
Option traders as a group do not make money. Is that clear enough for you?