"Gary Ross" is an American film director, writer, and author. He directed the film The Hunger Games (film)/The Hunger Games, as well as Pleasantville (film)/Pleasantville and the Best Picture nominated Seabiscuit (film)/Seabiscuit.

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They're playing with fire and it looks like they're going to get their fingers burned.

There's no doubt there is evidence of demand destruction emerging everywhere. U.S. gasoline data over the next week will show the effect of high oil prices on demand.

I left the conversation pretty much up to him. That way I would be fresher, and he's so good at this. I didn't want to prepare or spin anything. I just jumped in and let him take it wherever it went.

All of a sudden, there's a new risk to being long whereas before it was a one-way bet. The IEA release has capped the market.

This is just as much fun as playing in the water. It seems like there is a lot of bickering going on. Seems to be the wrong time. People need to be doing more stuff like this.

You can't have these sort of prices without a substantial effect on demand.

Governments have shown that if there is a substantial supply risk they are willing to act, and act quickly.

For the first time, traders have to worry about demand.