Tell your representatives this. Normally PRODUCERS of important things needed by the public, like the farmers grains foods etc, drillers oils fuels etc, miners base and precious metals etc…….
Are ALL priced or price regulated, on the futures market so as to keep net long term prices as low as possible, by maintaining a feast or famine producer’s price (mostly famine) for their goods. The “system” keeps producers barely alive. Just alive enough to stay in business.
They added Uranium, later on added Bitcoin, to futures and both trended lower after that. TPTB even have the dopey/dollar on futures as if its a product whose value has to be regulated.