Help Fight America's Oil Crisis:Tell Congress to act now to lower Energy Costs

Hi all,

Airlines are forwarding open letters to it customers to help fight oil crisis.Hope most of you must have received it...It goes like this

Our country is facing a possible sharp economic downturn because of skyrocketing oil and fuel prices, but by pulling together, we can all do something to help now. Visit www.StopOilSpeculationNow.com.

For airlines, ultra-expensive fuel means thousands of lost jobs and severe reductions in air service to both large and small communities. To the broader economy, oil prices mean slower activity and widespread economic pain. This pain can be alleviated, and that is why we are taking the extraordinary step of writing this joint letter to our customers.

Since high oil prices are partly a response to normal market forces, the nation needs to focus on increased energy supplies and conservation. However, there is another side to this story because normal market forces are being dangerously amplified by poorly regulated market speculation.

Twenty years ago, 21 percent of oil contracts were purchased by speculators who trade oil on paper with no intention of ever taking delivery. Today, oil speculators purchase 66 percent of all oil futures contracts, and that reflects just the transactions that are known. Speculators buy up large amounts of oil and then sell it to each other again and again. A barrel of oil may trade 20-plus times before it is delivered and used; the price goes up with each trade and consumers pick up the final tab. Some market experts estimate that current prices reflect as much as $30 to $60 per barrel in unnecessary speculative costs.

Over seventy years ago, Congress established regulations to control excessive, largely unchecked market speculation and manipulation. However, over the past two decades, these regulatory limits have been weakened or removed. We believe that restoring and enforcing these limits, along with several other modest measures, will provide more disclosure, transparency and sound market oversight. Together, these reforms will help cool the over-heated oil market and permit the economy to prosper.
The nation needs to pull together to reform the oil markets and solve this growing problem. We need your help. Get more information and contact Congress by visiting www.StopOilSpeculationNow.com

So friends i think we all must respond to this and tell Congress to act now to lower energy costs.I visited the above link and filled out the information and an email was delivered to the Senator and other Congressmen of my state.Hope you all will act too.

Regards,
ManuuRaghuu

hi ManuuRaghuu,

nice to see ur thread which was very useful to the country
i think this was the main cause which lead the country into crisis.....
i too filled the information on the link which was provided by u
hope all of our IL's too do this

-Sri

Thanks a lot Srijini...

yes you are right there are many underlying things happening in this country too...lets hope that other Ilities living here will participate in this.

Regards,
Manuuraghuu