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Hot Money Is Driving Oil Prices

A significant portion of the WTI and Brent prices increases is due to purchases by speculators, commodity funds, and hedge funds seeking to profit from refiners and traders bidding up crude to meet their requirements amid reduced supply. Click here to read more.

SPR Stock Release Won't Help Gas Prices

The release announced on March 11 will not bring US gasoline prices down, as the figure here illustrates. See Our View on this page.

A Coming Economic Disaster (March 30, 2026) -- The current energy crisis differs from earlier ones in four critical ways.

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