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Re: GAS RANT

Subject: Re: GAS RANT
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 07:41:28 -0500
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
References: <7833-40A5D908-142@storefull-3132.bay.webtv.net>
Democrats at work. Thank goodness Joe didn't make it any farther on his
presidential bit. How would he handle a "real" crisis, i.e. Global Terrorism.
Just another "head in the sand, maybe it will go away" approach??

Brad

"Robert E. Shlafer" wrote:

> Crash...
>
> Our Senator Joe Lieberman called a
> Congressional get together many years
> ago to address possible price gouging
> when gas prices suddenly shot up 25 cents a gallon
> At the end of the day (like 8hrs. worth of
> Q&A and explanations), Sir Joe asked
> his esteemed colleagues whether ANY
> of them understood anything more about
> why oil prices for supplies already on hand had gone up based on a
> future
> "planned reduction". To a man, not one
> Congressman knew more in terms of
> understanding the foregoing phenomena
> than he did when he initially walked in the
> door that morning.
>
> The matter was dropped at that point.
> Nothing was ever done. Price increases were kept in place...and that was
> the
> end of it.






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