Brenda Ann wrote:

There are laws (federal and state) against price gouging. These laws were
used to prosecute some vendors in the short term after the 9/11 attacks,
when some stations were selling gasoline for $5 a gallon. They were also
used (and well I remember) during the Arab Oil Embargo in the 70's when gas
stations everywhere raised prices from 30 cents a gallon to in some cases
over $1 a gallon (our stations in Oregon averaged around 79 cents/gallon).
At that time, offenders were made to give out several millions of gallons of
free gasoline (if you weren't around back then, you would never believe the
lines... we could only buy gasoline on alternate days, and the lines were
often 3 to 4 blocks long waiting to get in (and the gas was being rationed,
as we later found, not by the govt., but by the oil companies.. those lines
were nothing compared to the days when the feds required the oil companies
to give away the free gasoline... )

Brenda we are all aware that the Govt. work so slow it takes years to
get in gear.

You get two politicians together and all you get is "my side or their
side stuff". They like to play politics and what is best for them, not
us.

We need to lubricate Congress, and the only way I know how to do just
that is vote the old heads out and bring in new blood. I am a believer
that "TWO" terms are enough for ANY politician. The majority of
politicians in the U.S. Congress are out of work lawyers who could not
make in and ran for a political office. The voters just keep voting with
blinders on.

We American tax payers know how to get the attention of the oil
companies.

Now back to shortwave.