There's a pretty interesting blog post by Dave Roberts on why using ASN.1 for binary XML is a bad idea and what Fast Infoset does right and wrong. An amusing thing I learned from one of the user comments is that apparently one of the ASN.1 encoding schemes is XML. You can have lots of fun with that - binary XML encoded in ASN.1 encoded in XML transformed into binary...

It would be kinda hard to price-fix methanol considering how standard it is... that's like trying to price-fix water. This is, of course, assuming that only pure methanol is needed.