The Obama administration is going to cut down on speculators in the oil market, thus driving participants out of the market and reducing liquidity. It's funny how the government and normal folks don't understand this. If you reduce liquidity, that means you have to pay more or pay less than before because there are less "deals" out there from people who need to offload a position. Crude prices will be even more volatile, which counteracts what they're trying to do, and we'll see prices much more able to hit 100 a barrel or 200 a barrel or whatever doomsday scenario the government wants to protect against.
Just stay out of this shit. They have no idea what they're doing.