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Keep in mind that, during February of 2012, demand for oil was at a 15 year low
in the U.S. Yet, oil was at a record high, in price, for the same time span. If you
already know how the oil price manipulation works, then feel free to proceed to the
following article which was written in the Winter of 2012. In it are numerous links
to articles on the 2012 gasoline price gouging spree, written by those reasonably
versed in the topic:
Petroleum Products: #1 U.S. export at record high prices for Winter,
despite a 15 year low in demand.
There should be a law forbidding anyone to purchase oil unless he/she is going
to use the oil he purchases. This is because the pivotal trick of the oil speculat-
or is to artificially cause a shortage of oil by requiring numerous barrels of it
to sit entirely immobile, in the wait to honor the futures contract delivery date.
The oil remains all dressed up with nowhere to go, being that the typical oil
speculator have no intention to warehouse and use the oil.
Furthermore, the 2016 price of gasoline in America proves that the FoxNews
guests were all lying in having stated that mankind would never even see gas
below $3 a gallon again. Here in Pittsburgh, at the stations near Carnegie
Mellon University, Pitt, Chatham U, and Carlow Univ, gas is below $2 per
gallon. Thus, the economics I was taught ... by an ad hoc committee mem-
ber of JFK's advisory staff was correct all along.
The FoxNews guests were simply lying, in the hopes to get people to resign
themselves to paying for unjustly jacked-up gas price.
Once again, the below-2-dollar-a-gallon pricefor gas in 2016 is a huge factor
in showing you how hideously deceived the common citizens of America and
elsewhere were for consecutive years. It shows how artificial has been other
prices, including medical supply costs.
In as much, it would help the common citizen to have an introduction to a few
common forms of investigating, being that futures derivative gaming is what
caused the outrageously high price of gasoline during the Bush Economic
Meltdown. There is no reason why civilized humanity needs to be fooled
again.
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The original article:
2014 Gasoline prices were a déja vu of those of 2008. Thus, knowing the cause
of the rise in prices then might might might help you understand one thing:
Simply because FoxNews states something, it doesn't mean it's anywhere near
true. The Fox network claimed that the drastic rise in 2008 gasoline prices was
due to increased demand. No. It was oil speculators who horded the oil supply,
via futures contracts. This meant that the needed oil sat idle, in order for the sup-
pliers to honor the delivery of future oil that was intended to go nowhere, being
that the oil speculators had no intention to use said oil. They only wanted to sell
it at an inflated price.
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This covers a very brief and rudimentary review of the following:
1) Selling Short,
2) Put and Call Options,
3) Oil Speculation in futures derivatives.
Selling Short
In brief, the terminology refers to a broker leading you a block of stock of which
you are short and don't yet own. The full amount of stock that you borrow is im-
mediately sold by you. Yet, you intentionally remain in debt to the broker. You
pay the broker for the stock later, at a designated time. You hope that, by that
time, you will have to pay for the borrowed stock at a lower price. One sells
short when he/she is gambling on the price of the stock to go down.
Selling short consists in:
1} literally borrowing a block of stock from a broker and immediately selling it
to someone else,
2} followed by buying an equal amount of stock at a later time, at a different price,
3} thereby paying the broker.
This means that:
1} if the price of the stock goes down, you re-purchased it at a price cheaper than
the price by which you previously borrowed it and then immediately sold it.
You have made a profit.
2} if the price of the stock goes up, you end up losing money, because you have
to pay for the block of stock that you owe at a higher price.
Example: You borrow 1,000 shares of Widgetville Inc. which cost $100 per
share. You immediately sell that block of stock at $100 per share, for a price
of $100,000. Thus, you have $100,000 on hand, to buy an equal amount of the
same stock later. Then, when it comes time to buy an equal amount of Widget-
ville stock, it's price has already dropped to $90 per share. This means that you
buy the 1,000 shares of stock for $90,000 and keep $10,000 for yourself.
Of course, you give the 1,000 shares of Widgetville to the stock broker who
originally lent you 1,000 shares of it.
The previous example in review: 1,000 shares of Widgetville borrowed ... You
immediately sold it at $100 per share for $100,000 ... 1,000 shares are purchased
by you later at $90 per share ... You paid $90,000 for the 1,000 share ... You keep
$10,000 for yourself, minus any fee and applicable dividend reimbursement. The
1,000 shares of Widgetville Inc. are given to the broker who originally lent you
the 1,000 shares of it in the first place.
Remember: If the stock price rises, you lose money. For example, if the price
was hypothetically $110 at the time you purchased the new set of shares that
were to be given to the broker whom you owe 1,000 shares, you had to pay
$110,000. You lost a hypothetical $10,000.
Until 2007, investors were forbidden to sell short, unless the price were above
the present stock price, or unless the previous stock price was lower than the
present price. This was the uptick rule. You could only sell after the price in-
creased, or you increased the price yourself, thereby permitting you to sell.
Calling the Short
Note that the broker may instantly require you to cover the price of the stock
you borrowed. It is solely done at his/her discretion.
Put and Call Options
Concerning a Put Option, it's a contract which grants the contractee the option
to sell a block of 100 shares of stock at a specific price, if the contractee elects
to do so. The price is known as the Strike Price. A Call Option consists in
having the option to buy a 100 shares of stock at the designated Strike Price.
Oil Futures Derivatives
Oil Speculation, in the form of oil futures derivatives, is what artificially caused
the price of oil to skyrocket in 2008. During this time, FoxNews had guests go
on air, stating the wrong reasons why the price of gasoline skyrocketed.
The news show guests continued to state that supply and demand market forces
caused the sudden rise. The invalidating feature of the FoxNews claim is that,
in the Year 2006, the oil supply was at an eight year high. Yet, the price of oil
started its ascent into economic havoc. The price should have dropped. Thus,
FoxNews perpetuated a lie until a Senate hearing uncovered the true cause of
the price hike.
Oil futures consist in making a binding pledge to buy oil at a specified price at
a specific future date. The 2008 crisis consisted in investors not looking to buy
oil, but to merely buy oil futures. This is referred to as paper oil This meant
that significant amounts of oil needed to be reserved for investors who had no
intention to use the oil. This was the delivery aspect of futures derivatives.
This meant that oil was going to be kept away from oil consumers, in order to
honor the contractual obligation of the futures contracts. As a result, a reduc-
tion in the oil supply was being artificially induced. This, in effect, was the
hording of oil. It was a game of keep-away from the oil consumer. It was
the ploy of reducing supply, artificially. The barrels of oil attached to spec-
ulator futures contracts were all dressed up with nowhere to go. They were
the collectors' dolls never taken out of the box.
Deregulation, and NOT regulation, caused the price of oil to skyrocket. In fact,
the Enron Loophole was basically the oil speculators' reporting exemption.
See:
Incidentally, Texas Senator Phil Gramm's late night Enron Loophole simply
made it that oil futures contracts didn't have to be monitored by the CFTC
(Commodities Future Trading Commission.) Thus, no one could tell if prices
were being manipulated, until it was too late. As a result, the price of oil rose
to $137.11 in July 2008, and later to $147.27 a barrel. Gasoline reached $4.09
a gallon. Even in April 2011, the price of a barrel of oil was $113.93 or so.
Keep in mind that it was the deregulated speculators who caused oil prices to
rise.
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