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of crude, where there continues to be stories of tankers parked off coasts and sudden shutdowns of refineries.

Contrast that with W and his ventriloquist Darth who did everything they could to destabilize the oil regions with war-mongering and with the U.S. spending billions and billions trying to fix pipelines that were continually being sabotaged.

In the current era, the rampant-in-your-face speculation began during the 2008 election when lame duck W. wasn't running, and the cause/effect of the high prices through today, is quite different from the early-mid 2000s.