Only to those with open minds but without personal agendas, who haven't already painted themselves into a corner with predjudiced, preconceived personal notions...

Leading stock market analysts and commentators have pointed to Commodities traders/speculators as the defining cause of runaway inflation of crude oil prices, and resulting pump prices - as have a WIDE array of others close to the energy market - INCLUDING OPEC spokesmen themselves.
Any still clinging to the notion that what we're now experiencing is purely the result of healthy Free Enterprise and enviable USA Capitalism, probably also believes in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy...
What we're experiencing in runaway energy cost is
ARTIFICIAL, and has little to do with classic basic or direct supply/demand principles - it's ALL about speculation and profit taking by investor middlemen who have absolutely NOTHING to do with oil exploration, production, or refining!