As our government considers regulating oil prices downward and punishing oil companies for making money from high demand, we need to consider the consequences. Allowing the market to work — raising oil prices, even sharply, with rising demand — is what will encourage investment in and adoption of oil's eventual replacement. We have to find another source of energy. Holding oil prices down artificially will just make us less prepared when the oil wells start to run dry.
Jarrod Ribble
Provo