I figured it would, the speculators must have realized they were about to be investigated. All the talk of opening up off shore drilling and drilling on "sensitive" land scared big oil and OPEC. Once (insert politician of choice here) is bought off by them and we get nowhere with all this talk of becoming 'energy independant', the price will go up, and in a few years we will go thru this again. OPEC actually DID slow production by hundreds of thousands of barrels a day recently, yet the price keeps dropping. Fishy, yes no?