Rigs for drilling oil in the voluminous Permian shale basin rose for the first time this year after months of cutbacks.

It effectively could throw the U.S. back into an age of agriculture.

It is the dynamic emergence of new products and new markets that create true competition and prevent the creation of effective monopolies.

“There’s plenty of producer hedging going on as well, and those production levels are not going to come down if demand projections are not met.”