How can the gas\/oil companies still continue to defend rising prices when they are making millions of dollars a minute? <\/p>\n
Anger over oil profits is justified, especially now that we know about things like the $400 million retirement package for outgoing chairman of Exxon, Lee Raymond. Give me a break. <\/p>\n
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights released a new study yesterday that confirms that rising gasoline prices in California are because of “corporate markups and profiteering<\/a>” not rising crude costs or the national switchover to higher-cost ethanol, as the oil industry claims.<\/p>\n Is anyone calling for Bush and the US Congress to freeze gas and oil prices to reasonable levels, as Nixon did? Is there any investigation going on at all?<\/p>\n Is anyone capable of and willing to put any sort of leash on the runaway greed that has led to so much exploitation and death?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How can the gas\/oil companies still continue to defend rising prices when they are making millions of dollars a minute? Anger over oil profits is justified, especially now that we know about things like the $400 million retirement package for outgoing chairman of Exxon, Lee Raymond. Give me a break. The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights released a new study yesterday that confirms that rising gasoline prices in California are because of “corporate markups and profiteering” not rising crude…<\/p>\n