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[NorthernRaider]

River good post but dont forget about speculators such as oil and grain speculators, those bastards deliberately buy up suptanker loads of sweet crude and grain and park them up often for over 6 months in places as diverse as Milford Haven to off the coast of West Africa just to drive up prices, all legal and all untouchable.

Of course when we actually kept war reserves and national contingency reserves it stopped speculators, but now they can and do bulk buy much needed resources and hog it for up to a year to push the prices up.