” If the Journal wants to editorialize about energy policy in UK and France, it should publish an editorial, not hijack a column.”

Not is it not hijacking a column, it's accurately titled opinion of the Europeans was on the _opinion_ page, as opposed to the practice in so many other, liberally-biased (both terms apply) newspapers of doing this in the “news” section. (I could add practices like relegating Congressional activity on a balanced budget amendment in the 1990s to a remote page of the Business section rather than on page one of the main news section — and so I'll add that, as another example of what others, rather than the Journal, do.)

And what caused the huge spike in oil prices? Take a wild guess. Obviously Goldman had help — there were other players in the physical-commodities market — but the root cause had almost everything to do with the behavior of a few powerful actors determined to turn the once-solid market into a speculative casino. Goldman did it by persuading pension funds and other large institutional investors to invest in oil futures — agreeing to buy oil at a certain price on a fixed date. The push transformed oil from a physical commodity, rigidly subject to supply and demand, into something to bet on, like a stock. Between 2003 and 2008, the amount of speculative money in commodities grew from $13 billion to $317 billion, an increase of 2,300 percent. By 2008, a barrel of oil was traded 27 times, on average, before it was actually delivered and consumed.
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone. “The Bubble Machine”

It's a shame we will not get Justice with public senior exec beheadings.