Addressing Skyrocketing Oil Prices by Restoring Fair and Open Energy Markets
Every time you buy products such as food or gas, you are impacted by unregulated, secretive and often foreign commodities futures markets. Speculators in these markets are increasingly buying and selling commodities such as oil to sell again, rather than to use. As largely unregulated speculators pocket billions of dollars at your expense, the price of commodities has increased out of proportion to marketplace demands.
LATEST NEWS
Oil speculators, not gas station owners, to blame for skyrocketing prices at the pump
August 16, 2008 – The real culprits are oil speculators who have artificially driven… More »
Regulate Speculators? (Video)
August 15, 2008 – Speculators may be bigger a problem in the oil markets… More »
ATA Statement: ATA Expresses Disappointment with Congressional Failure to Act on Speculation
July 30, 2008 – Renews Commitment to Push for Legislation More »
New Poll: 67 Percent of Americans Want New Oil Market Regulations
July 16, 2008 – Eighty Percent Believe Speculators Manipulating Oil Markets. More »
EASE THE SQUEEZE NOW
We Can’t Wait.
High oil prices squeeze everyone.
Before the August recess, Congress must pass legislation that curbs excessive speculation and increases production.