[artplumber]

The money has to go somewhere. Just like there was too much money in the stock market, then the housing market, the big investment funds/banks have to get returns for the directors of the funds and all of their investors. This drives them to look for runups. Currently, that is energy. Add the continually weakening dollar, and some element, perceived or real, of limited supply, and you have the ongoing assault on $200bbl oil.

Funnily enough, the dollar is weaker because of trying to save a bunch of @sses from the last blow-up - housing. This will only makes things worse (for the fuel user) in this runup.