It's complicated.
First of all, 99.9% of all contracts are never delivered. They're settled off, so there is no delivery taking place. That's why there is a paper market and there is a real market.
And at different times there can be different forces in the paper market. I've already pointed out that some guys.... There is a belief that the price went to $147 because a guy was covering a short and he got nailed. That's what is in the common lexicon these days, that this same group got caught short and bid the price out.
But to your point, we shouldn't be talking about the price of crude oil. I think you people are really talking about the price of gasoline, and that's a whole different thing.