As the price of oil hit a year high of US$74.15 before settling at $73.89, 40% of ArabianOilandGas.com readers have said that they believe that if it wasn’t for speculators oil would be languishing at around $30 a barrel.
In a poll carried out over the last week on our homepage, 36% of voters said they believed that the opposite was true and that the same speculators were playing Russian roulette with the whole industry, while 24% said that they believed tighter regulatory controls were necessary and that even a move to long term contracts would be a better option.
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