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Message| (37)    Let me begin by stating that this article will,
at no time, provide evidence or insight about how I believe the
oil markets will behave in the future. Rather, my purpose is to
provide current and potential energy investors a means to take
advantage of glaring market inefficiencies given some prior
understanding or opinion of the crude oil markets. As such, if
you were looking for a hot oil tip, this article is not for you.
Still with me? Great, let's get to it.  I have previously
written about why commodities ETFs are terrible. Let me assure
you that this article by no means represents a reappraisal of
that opinion. In fact, it is the abject terribleness of
commodities ETFs that makes the strategy I outline here viable
in the first place. As a brief recap, commodities ETFs are
terrible because they do not do the thing they are supposed to
do, namely, track the price of an underlying commodity. These
instruments, for the most pa