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

October 2008

• Acting CFTC Chair: Need For New Oversight Of Derivatives Acting Chairman Walter Lukken of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission acknowledged on Wednesday that more regulatory oversight is needed for over-the-counter derivatives products. (October 15, 2008)

September 2008

• Petroleum Marketers Welcome Passage of H.R. 6604 Legislation Approved by House of Representatives Would Provide Federal Oversight Agency with New Tools to Regulate an Energy Market Dominated by Speculators (September 18, 2008)
  
  
• Energy Retailers: Speculation Report Shows Need for Increased Commodities Oversight Report Directly Contradicts Federal Regulators, Who Say that Speculators Have Little to Do with Energy Price Spike (September 12, 2008)
  
  
• Commissioner to Dissent: From Commodity Regulator's - Report on Speculation
  (September 11, 2008)
  
  
• THE ACCIDENTAL HUNT BROTHERS – ACT 2
  Index Speculators Have Been a Major Cause of the Recent Drop in Oil Prices (September 10, 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