The powers that be want America to fail, and the biggest attack on it right now is our currency. They wish to take away our moral authority, they wish to take away our ability to defend ourselves, but they most assuredly have already taken away our currency, and are using it to strangle us whenever we don’t play ball. The oil increase is primarily in dollars, which means for the other currencies, there hasn’t been anything LIKE the rise for us, and this was done intentionally. The intention is to replace the world’s reserve currency, which is currently dollars, with euros. Why? Then, with our currency worth less and less until it’s worthless, they can replace it with the Amero, but only if we agree to merge into a Union with Mexico and Canada, in order to let THOSE economies support the one they’ve trashed here. How do you strangle a country? You make it twice as expensive for their energy as you do for everyone else in the world, and you do that by deflating their currency, not just by printing more (which they do), but by damaging it’s reputation, essentially attacking it’s credit rating, in the market place.

To blame this on market forces is ludicrous. They are simply the tool the manipulators use, and they’re big enough to throw all of us “speculators” (yes, I am one, though how my one contract can damage the world is beyond me) to the lions whenever they want, and this is the way they’re doing it. They scare you with us, making us the bogeymen, so you’ll give them more power over us, when it’s the individual trader making liquidity in the market, something that makes markets tradeable, more efficient, more honest.