“Speculators like you and I are bad. Really, really bad. You should hold your head in shame.” says Garry White of Smart Commodities UK. He states, contrary to many politicians, that it’s the fundamentals, not the speculators that are to blame for the surge and subsequent decline of oil prices.  He remains a long-term bull on price of oil…

The folks over at the Oil Drum have done an interesting analysis of oil prices and where they might be headed.

Gas stations in Britain have began to run out of fuel as a four-day fuel strike by Shell tanker drivers sparked a wave of panic buying. Six hundred drivers working for two companies that distribute fuel to Shell filling stations around Britain are on strike over low pay.

“Is Britain going back to the 1970s?” asks Ben Traynor in Fleet Street Daily.

I was 14 when I first learned about the 1970s oil price shocks, and how they had caused stagflation (unemployment and inflation rising at the same time) in Britain.

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Wow… Here is an act of entirely commendable proportions.

Let’s begin at the beginning, shall we?…as the egg goes, so goes the chicken. A game of consumer product mousetrap…desperate times for the airline industry and the manufacturing sector. Is this a rerun of the 1970’s? Don’t pull out the shag carpeting and the disco ball just yet…and more!