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May 4, 2012

Why Blame Energy Futures for Current Costs?

Scott Irwin, Washington Times


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President Obama, doing his best imitation of a late 19th-century prairie populist, recently pinned the blame for rising gasoline prices on speculators in energy futures markets. . .

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