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i like that. can i use that? please, please. and and that has continued to increase over time. it s gotten worse when we had our first big oil spike many 07 when we got to $150 a barrel. it looks like we re on our way to doing better than that this time around, if you can call it better. senator merkley, what concrete steps do you want to see that would diminish the influence that speculators, not end users, have in the oil markets that s pushing the price up? well, right now, we can divide the oil market into roughly thirds. you have a third who are end users, they obviously need to be in the market, to address the future demand for their industry, airlines, as you mentioned. third are the big banks, and a third are other speculators. so the big banks should be out of the business due to the volcker rule. but, unfortunately, there s a big loophole that s been carved out of the volcker rule for physical commodities. plus, the regulators haven t got it implemented yet. so the ....