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Fuel prices will keep rising unless demand comes down. Policymakers are prolonging the pain by pushing people toward the pump.

Summary: Painful and unpopular though it is, governments need to let the market work. Those who need help should be targeted specifically, whether they be hauliers or the less well-off. ... Fuel prices will keep rising unless demand is destroyed to meet available supply. Reducing pump prices through tax cuts is simply prolonging the pain.

If governments need more evidence that supplies of transport fuels are tight, they should look at the difference between prompt and future prices for fuels.

IF oil producers were hoping for a quiet 2022, they may be disappointed. There are two very different schools of thought emerging on what the oil market is going to look like this year. The one thing they agree on: It’s not going to be serene.

Shareholders remain confident in the company, i mean, as i said a justice department investigation is never a positive thing, and if you've got all these other issues at tesla, you know, questions about whether the model 3 is ever going to be scaled up: questions about whether the company is going to make a profit, and then the distraction of the s.e.c. and doj going through e-mails, you know, talking to board members, so on and so forth. i mean, it's not positive. it is definitely not positive. >> jesse, good to talk to you, thank you for joining us, a financial regulation editor at bloomberg...