Obama’s Plan To Address Energy Trading

Courtesy Donklephant  Sun, 06/22/2008 - 1:56pm

This is one way to bring some sanity back to the price of oil, and I’m glad to see that not only is Obama backing this bi-partisan push to put some limits on out of control speculation, but also calling for tougher restrictions on market forces that aren’t doing anything to help out consumers…

Obama wants to close a loophole in federal law that exempts some energy traders from regulations that govern other exchange-traded commodities.

Democrats call this...


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