>Could you please cite these policies and explain how they kept oil
>prices "higher than they should have been"?
I should emphasize that my point was that the absolute price of oil in
the US is lower that it "should" be. Although Michael may be right
that the price was a little bit higher relative to the standard US
price these days, the fact remains that it never got even close to the
price that it would be in a completely free market.