Another example of our bureaucrats coming up with short term silly suggestions like banning futures trading, tying up with Chavez etc. typical thinking that has stymied our agricultural markets and our private oil retailing companies. I think it is good that oil prices are being driven up, if it is being driven up artificially it will be a bubble that will break and deliver much lower rates in the future else it will drive innovation to find alternate sources of fuel. It is better that the world learns to live with lesser fossil fuels faster.