Ask AP: What does college football eligibility have to do with the price of oil?

By The Associated Press

Q: What does college football eligibility have to do with the price of oil?

Not much, usually. But both topics inspired people to e-mail The Associated Press with questions about the news — questions that are getting answered in this first installment of the interactive Q&A column "Ask AP."

AP editors selected six of the 150 questions submitted by the news-reading public and got answers from AP reporters and editors — the ones who spend their days covering the very news stories that inspired the questions.

If you have your own question about the news that you'd like to see answered by an AP journalist, send it to newsquestions@ap.org, with "Ask AP" in the subject line.