A friend of mine and I often discuss policy and politics.  One thing he likes to talk about is how gas is affected by the oil futures market.  Griperblade’s blog today points out how changing the rules might drop gas by two bucks a gallon.  Would this work?  The Wall Street Journal thinks it might.  All I read was how oil markets are regulated by the same lack of rules that caused Enron.  That told me all I needed to know.  If the analysts are wrong, then gas stays where it’s at or goes up a bit more.  If we don’t do this, the same result.  I say we try it because they might be right, and there doesn’t seem to be any risk besides to those who are in the oil futures market.  This is the kind of information that could be dangerous if large masses of people knew. 

So, spread the news already.  My 1989 Oldsmobile doesn’t get 29 MPG like it used to.