Well, the market trades at the extreme margins and so is your exampleQuote from Cutten:
... If what you said was true, oil could go to $1 million per barrel and no one would increase exploration, or the production of alternative fuels.

The oil producers actually have long memories from the 70s and they know that speculative high pricing causing the high spikes in the 70s eventually lead to improved energy efficiency and production - which eventually lead to the $10 oil in the 90s (and BTW also the root cause of the first Iraq war).
What I suggesting was simply that there is speculative pricing in oil and that oil producers are reluctant and in no hurry to change production until the speculation is out of the market, ie., price stabilized to a non speculative level.
