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May 09, 2004
GEE, I'M STUNNED
An analyst said Sunday that in the last two weeks, gas prices have taken their biggest jump since last August. The national average now stands at $1.96 per gallon (including $2.07 at the Mobil station on the corner next to my apartment building -- the highest it's ever been in the three years I have been in this location).
Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg says that tight supplies and rising demand are to blame. Uh huh. I'll agree with that - rising demand. In other words, just in time for the summer driving season, oil companies are tightening the screws and jacking prices up on gasoline.
You know, where I come from (and in a lot of other places), jacking prices up just because demand is higher... well, they call that price gouging. And where I come from (and even where the oil companies come from), that's against the law.
Yet there's no prosecution, not even an investigation, from the Republican-controlled Congress or the in-Big-Oil's-Pocket president. Anyone wonder why? Check the corporate donor lists for Bush's campaign, and to the RNC and the Republican Senate and Congressional Campaign Committees. Then you'll know.
