This post is out on Houston Chronicle’s Fuelfix, and has garnered a few more amusing references there:

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/01/12/current-natural-gas-fundamentals-explained-through-star-wars-characters/

Just curious though as to how the Sith (government) fits into this scenario. In Star Wars, the Sith used the dark side of the force to engineer and construct the Death Star. Any chance the establishment of regulatory barriers to speculative trading (i.e. Dodd Frank) which incentivizes producers and sanctioned swap dealers is actually a ploy to keep prices low?

With low prices providing an incentive toward crude to gas switching (nat gas powered or electric) in places like the auto industry, the government lessens the dependence on foreign and/or dirty energy sources. But when fully integrated they will likely subsidize the producers and tax the consumers, similar to how the Sith aligned with the Trade Federation and took over the Republic….dark times.