WEBSITES

• The Accidental Hunt Brothers
  A Blog Dedicated To Discussing The Topic Of Index Speculation (Added November 17, 2008)
  
  
• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
  
  
• House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management

ARTICLES

September 2008

• Oil Traders: Don’t Curb Our Investments - lobbyists are banning together to thwart congressional efforts aimed at tightening regulations on oil futures trading. (CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS September 9, 2008)

August 2008

• A Few Speculators Dominate Vast Market for Oil Trading (August 21, 2008, Wash. Post)
  Read the Article | Read the PMAA Response
  
  
• CRS Report for Congress - Speculation and Energy Prices: Legislative Responses (August 6, 2008)
  

July 2008

• THE ACCIDENTAL HUNT BROTHERS
  How Institutional Investors Are Driving Up Food And Energy Prices (July 31, 2008)

• Energy Retailers Disheartened by Congressional Failure to Pass Anti-Speculation Measure
  (July 31, 2008, Washington, D.C.)

• Tell Your Representative to Pass The Energy Speculation Bill This Week
  (July 29. 2008)
  
  
• PMAA Participates with Senators in Press Conference To Preview Enegy Legislation
  Prepared remarks of PMAA Director of Legislative Affairs, Sherri Cabrera (July 21, 2008)
  
  
• Democratic Senators, Energy Experts Discuss Bill To End Excessive Oil Speculation And Lower Record-High Gas Prices (July 21, 2008)
  

• Pension Funds Boosted By Oil
  While Stocks Fall, Commodity Bets Are Paying Off -
  Washington Post (July 7, 2008)
  
  
• Gas Stations Push Back
  Washington Post, Federal section (July 1, 2008)
  
  
• Oil dealers tell Congress: It's time for action
  KOMONews.com (July 1, 2008)

June 2008

• Fuel Distributors Fight Oil Speculation KappTV.com - ABC (June 26, 2008)
  
  
• Pump pain: Gas stations blaming Wall Street speculators
  The Seattle Times (June 22, 2008)
  
  
• Ban on hedge fund oil investments considered
  With pump prices holding above $4-a-gallon, there is no shortage of proposals from Capitol Hill about how to address speculation in oil markets. (June 19, 2008)

• Oil crisis fuels blame game
  LA Times (June 19, 2008)
  
  
• Senate Follow-up Letter to CFTC
  (June 12, 2008)
  
  
• Soaring costs are squeezing gas station owners too
  LA Times (June 10, 2008)
  
  
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission finds answers to soaring oil prices elusive
  Still, its energy advisory panel touts the session as a 'great day.'
  By Maura Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
  (June 11, 2008)
  
  
• Mr. Gerry Ramm Oral Testimony
  (June 3, 2008) before the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, United States Senate, Washington, DC
  View the webcast
  
  
• The Oil Price Really Is A Speculative Bubble
  (June 2, 2008) A recent study by MIT Professor of Economics Richard Eckaus and the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. The study concludes that the recent run-up in oil prices was driven by investor speculation.
  

May 2008

• Commodity Futures Trading Commission Press Release (May 29, 2008) - CFTC Announces Multiple Energy Market Initiatives
  
  
• PMAA Press Release (May 27, 2008) - Energy Retailers Target Foreign-Markets Loophole