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Speculating on Oil Regulation - Not the Most Effective Tool

This just underscores how incoherent our country's energy policy has become. Instead of focusing on the real issues, we get profits taxes, the grim specter of manipulation, and other political footballs.

Taxes, spending, the environment... these all play a role in effective energy policy, but what we are seeing right now is ordinary pandering to the electorate.