Quote: Even the US (democratic) Congress can not repeal the law of supply and demand!
Sure there's some of that, but also the manipulation of pricing and the fact that less than 30 or 40 people set the barrel prices of oil for the entire world, then the commodities folk jack the prices skyward from there.
The oil folk tell us there are shortages of diesel and home heating oil. Diesel has been in production for around 100 years, and they haven't figured out how to make enough by now?