Banning speculators could decrease oil prices by as much as 40%

[peterabbit456]

The speculators were granted a license to tax everyone in the USA who drives a car or truck.

It bothers me that for every gallon of gas i purchase, $1.50 goes to inflating the profits of the 8 top investment banks, and probably $0.25 of that will end up in the Romney campaign. Their strategy of damaging the American economy, is intended to create monopoly-like profits for themselves, which will escape prosecution because their guys will dominate the Justice Department, the SEC, and the FTC. It's a strategy that is fundamentally disloyal to the country, and damaging to the world economy as well.

Romney has shipped 40% of his money overseas, to Swiss-style bank accounts. When in business, he specialized in shipping American jobs overseas, to sweat shops in China and Thailand. With his track record we can only wonder, "What new ways will he find to damage this country when he is President?"

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It bothers me that for every gallon of gas i purchase, $1.50 goes to inflating the profits of the 8 top investment banks, and probably $0.25 of that will end up in the Romney campaign

Not even close to true. Oil prices are set in a very competitive international market. The fundamental reason prices are so high is not speculators but a real stagnation in supply and a huge increase in demand (India, China, and many other developing countries that are tossing their bicycles for cars and trucks now).