The change of seasons, California environmental laws, world demand, China's growth, all of those get blamed for the price fluctuations.
Now some history of manipulation of public opinion in the face of facts.
WorldCom didn't manipulate their stock prices.
Enron - didn't manipulate the energy market.
Need to attack Iraq to prevent impending, almost immediate use of WMDs, including nukes. (We know where they are. Blair says 45 minutes from local commander authorization to implementation.)
The US doesn't torture.
Unregulated capitalism can be trusted to do what is in the public benefit.
Those are just a few of the positions you've defended against attack from the Great Unwashed lemmings. Said left wingnuts having been correct.
Bush & Co. don't manipulate the price of gasoline. This waddles, quacks, swims, flies and has feathers identical to the others. Just a few more players.
Unfortunately the record of "free enterprise" is so bad a reasonable person will distrust them. Has to distrust them.
Arf
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Without building any more refinery capacity, all at once there's plenty.
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- NOTICE How Gas went Down ............
- A few small holes in the theory
- re: A few small holes in the theory
- The world according to banks and oil companies
- Without building any more refinery capacity, all at once there's plenty.
- How cute, TB. But also how naive.
- It was due to the "speculators"
- A few small holes in the theory