administration that faces one of these situations likes to do to the spr and look at the behavior of oil companies. those are standard pieces of the playbook. but in the end, it s going to take real realignment, changes in the demand for oil and production increases outside the united states. why is this happening, though? why is it happening now? this is just the fallout from the pandemic. if you think back to april of 2020, we briefly saw oil futures prices go negative. there was simply no demand for oil because there was no commercial air travel, there was not much travel at all. and we really just as a result, saw a lot of production cut back. there was no demand. there wasn t a lot of supply. with the arrival of the spring of 2021, opening up of the economy, a rapid increase in demand that was not matched by increases in supply. that s the fundamental problem. it will get fixed over time, but it won t get fixed by this small release from the spr and won t
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to why the market bounced back the way with it did today in 24 hours? i think the president got it exactly right, ed. the reason the market bounced back is you are seeing here the effects of all of the speculators who dominate the market. remember, the market is driven today not by investors there for the long haul but speculators who are in and out of a stock in less than a second. so they saw opportunity. sold or bought as advantage their position. the market came back today. within an eyelash of the all time high. so the bottom line is there is plenty of energy in the world which is a speculator s dream. yes. in fact, right now the most money that s ever been speculating on oil futures prices is in the market. so the speculators here want to do what they can to enhance their profits. underlying this, there is no fundamental shortage of energy,