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Rising Oil Price Could Slow or Kill Economic Recovery

We need to move the margin requirements up to 50 % from the current 5% ..that will take care of the majority of the problems with oil and gas spike that are manipulated from the commodity markets..Utilitys should not be able to be controlled by such small amounts of monies!!!

Gazprom: The Fall of a State Owned Company

It is sad to see the Russian people being the pawns in all this.... the greedy power hungry Putin's of the country did what Bush did to America the last 8 years....What happens when one group has control and goes unregulated...with self-serving interests ..not the people of the country

A Balanced View of Oil Prices, The Economy and Speculation

During the oil run up of 08..the fundamentals were thrown out the window...every expert gave opinions to sell readership ...perhaps funded by big oil to falsely run up prices or by accident ..the same result happened..the only way to control this from happening again is to modify the margin requirements for the oil and gas industry to 50% margin rather than 5 %....Lawrence Sikarskie

Crude Oil's 2009 Forecast: Time to Buy?

Under the Bush administration the AG's office had zero regulation on future's contract's, mergers or any regulation of big business..thus the financial collapse of the world markets.. We will have stability in this new administration... since there will be a watchful eye on these things , large business doesn't want heavy regulation...so you won't see the devasting abuses you have seen under the Bush Administration...watch me i'm right on the money here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Should We Really Bail Out the Big Three Automakers with $73.20 Per Hour Labor?

At over 72.00 hr labor cost we should let the UAW figure this one out..no wonder anyone of the three can't compete with all the other auto makers... they should probably go bye bye...........this is beyond high paying jobs....and any other unions!!!

Is Ethanol Dead? Not So Fast

Corn is one of the least efficient biofuels. We need t develop renewable sources like the algae biofuels which reproduce themselves in 21 days with a highly efficient byproduct..not the useless low BTU biofuel from corn.

Is the Market for Oil Reinflating?

What were your fundamental reasons???????????????... they exist for 50-60 bbl.........no more..the rest is commodity run-up..Once we see the 20 to 1 leverage raised to 50% margin requirement on oil and gas contracts..it will limit the market manipulation of these UTILITIES.... and give stabilization to these sectors... currently 50000 manipulates 1,000,000.00 and that is why the drop occured ..no substance and when money was needed the contracts were sold ..oil dropped down to its support level of tangilbe pricing.
Lawrence

Why Oil and Gold Are Headed Much Higher

Answer this queston..why should oil and gas margins be 5% ..when they are utilities and can be manipulated on this 20-1 leverage..I believe that when margins for oil and gas are increased to 50% like what is beinpresented by the G8 nations...you will see a stable pricing of oil and gas ..since it has no fundamentals over 50.00 bbl..when the surge occurred..the majority of the price was reflected in the run-up not the fundametal base line. Commodity's need to be regulated more..but since they are centralized in GB and 90% are sold in USA...they have been free of any kind of regulation...why would GB expand any capital resources if their population does not use these vehicles...Once this margin amout is raised..every idiot that says these price structures should be their will change their view..but if oil and gas is allowed to be under 20 to 1 margin manipulation..they are right ..prices can be manipulatted to those levels...and politicans still are bought and paid for by the industry..Lawrence

Why Oil and Gold Are Headed Much Higher

First off OIL and gas needs to have the margin req. moved to 50% so this manipulation your talking about does not occurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... are NO fundametal values to support anything over 50.00bbl. but at 5% or 20 manipulation leverage you and the huge oil companies can manipulate oil and gas at will...the reason for the current drop is oversupply and liquility... stability occurs when we move the margin req. up to 50% not 5%..utility manipulation should not occur!!!!!!!
Lawrence Sikarskie

Where Will Oil Go From Here?

After the illegal and devastating merger the Bush administration pushed through ...those need to be reversed and oil / gas futures contracts and margin requirements need to be boosted to 50% instead of 5%..to elimiinate the current market manipulation which runs up to 50% of the market price
Lawrence...
PS: Oil and Gas are Utilities not to be manipulated!!!!
Hopefully President Obama will recognise this and reverse all the harmfull practices of the RNC over the last 8 years

Was 'Peak Oil' a Multi-Billion Dollar Hoax?

Oil fundametal barely support 50.00 bbl ..everything else it just commodity runup..To prove this move margin requirements up to 50% ..stillallowing investment ..but lowering the manipulation of the curren 20 to one ratio...which favors total manipulation..Lawrence

OPEC Embarks on a Fool's Mission

We still need to move the margin requirements from 5% to 50% on oil and gas commodities..this is going to stabilize the price structure much more...and not allow huge market manipulations that have occured in the last year. this is a utility ..expect it to be treated as such in the future!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Oil: The Inconvenient Truth

I should think the oil indusry is welcoming raising margin requirement from 5% to 50% in oil and gas futures..this will allow access to the utility's but limit or highly reduce their ability to manipulate the market and it would then be a free market
Lawrence Sikarskie

Majority of Americans Support Ethanol

Corn biofuel is a waste of subsidized tax dollars..it is using more fossil fuel to produce a gallon than by itself...It has 30-40% less BTU per gallon than oil based...We need to make food out of corn and use the renewable low cost high efficient algae based biofuel that is not hurting other groups and by the use of warm h2o, breed new units in days not a limited access season It is also capable of liquid hydrogen.. runnig of current through h2o to the edge of conductivity ..becoming more functional than at 100% where scientific research is at..there are small research group able to do this NOW..

Not Calling Crude Oil Prices a Bubble For Now

When OPEC and other cartels state that their fundamentals for oil are 50-70bbl and you can manipulate 1,000,000.00 of oil for 50,000. THAT SAYS IT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ned to have 50% margin requirements on the oil and gas markets so the true price is reflected to the consumers..WHY you ask....people heat their homes with this and false market runup will be responsible for tens of thousand of deaths in the cold weather..cause pneumonia and other symptoms because their was no heat.. THAT IS WHY WE NEED SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE COMMODITY MARKET..MY opinon on this is why they broke up the oil comapanies 70 years ago and put in place the anti-trust laws..but the last 8 years you had the RNC ignore the anti-trust laws, and the attorney General stand by and let many significan violations go unchecked in many big industries...crating a huge mess now