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The dangers of an interventionist oil market policy / Thijs Van de Graaf, EU Energy Policy Blog, 1/07/2011http://www.energypolicyblog.com/2011/07/01/the-dangers-of-an-interventionist-oil-market-policy/The  international oil markets have been quite turbulent for the past  several months. The wave of protests sweeping the Arab world and the  loss of Libyan sweet crude have fueled fears of shortages and have  driven oil prices higher. Last week, on June 23, the western  industrialized countries therefore decided to play their trump card: the  strategic oil reserves. Over the course of the coming month, 60 million  barrels of oil will be released onto the market from the emergency  supplies of the United States, Japan and some European countries...