The second link had a lot of articles posted, but I didn't see any that were related to oil/gas prices.
I was speaking to the whole bell curve explanation and how the reason prices have suddenly escalated is due to the all of a sudden, running scarcity of oil.
To throw around these fancy explanations, without bringing up the fact that the underlying factor, driving gas prices up is GREED, plain and simple.
I am not anti-intellectual; I appreciate reasonable, sound and educated explanations of things; but not when I know it is to cover up some Bullshit!! Then the reasonable, sound and eductated explanations become rationalizations.
Why is it that, all of a sudden after the U.S. invaded Iraq, there becomes a great oil shortage?