Preface: There is a VAST difference between the terms greed and GREED, corporate and CORPORATE and capitalist vs CAPITALIST! The former is normal and the LATTER is PSYCHOTIC!
This contemporary economic/commodities event is a new high (LOW) in the of the manipulations of market by CORPORATIONs and CAPITALISTs regardless of their product or means in the history of mankind! Crude oil is a fundamental of commodities and it is also a fundamental of the stock markets, the money markets and the energy markets, all of which are absolutely ESSENTIAL to our modern world. Right now, the world is deeply involved with at least minimizing one of those oil functions and deeply affecting the other two.
Simply said, crude oil's function as an energy source days are severely numbered. Oil is actually falling and failing in basic intrinsic value. To mask this fall in the necessity of oil as a fuel is being artificially manipulated to falsely describe quantity of supply and/or the inability of distribution as the culprits in the ridiculous pricing of the genuine artificial and deliberately minimized supply of withholding production and distribution. It is all a massive CORPORATE/CAPITALIST ploy of market manipulation for the sake of the most evil word in the history of mankind...GREED! There will come a point, when the genius of the original Nikolai Tesla means of supplying enough energy to fuel the entire world that is thoroughly monopolized by the GREEDY, that oil will become magically plentiful and available again to make the rest of its products (plastics, medicines, fabrics, and more at super inflated prices. Then and only then will relief (if any sane person can call it that) be felt by the enslaved and captured "consumers". This oil 'event' is NOT a natural thing. It is, in fact, ENTIRELY man-made, artificial and corrupt by the so-called CORPORATIONs and CAPITALISTs who are the GREEDIEST demonic PIGS of wealth that the world has EVER experienced! Don't kid yourselves. This world is most assuredly changing and until/unless we rid ourselves of the GREEDY, it will only get worse and worse and worst!