Katrina & Iraq & Iran

Following up on the previous post, have you ever noticed that just as commodity traders and oil executives get ready to calculate their year-end bonuses and do some Christmas shopping, someone predicts a "worse than normal" winter in the northeast United States and oil prices go up through the holidays?

That's not enough anymore. Now you've got to get the US government to rattle its useless sabre at Iran to make sure those first quarter profits stay high as well.

Black gold. The universal motive.