GOP wants gas prices investigated

[ProSense]

Sitting on their asses couldn't protect their seats.

GOP wants gas prices investigated

By STEVEN MUFSON and TIMOTHY DWYER
Washington Post
4/22/2006

WASHINGTON - Republican congressional leaders made plans Friday to ask President Bush to order investigations into possible price gouging by oil companies as crude oil prices hit new highs on world markets and average gasoline prices in the nation's capital blew through the $3-a-gallon mark.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., are preparing to send a letter to the president Monday asking him to direct the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department to investigate price gouging and instruct the Environmental Protection Agency to issue waivers that might make it easier for oil refiners to produce adequate gasoline supplies, Hastert spokesman Ron Bonjean said.

Hastert and Frist's letter comes amid charges by some consumer groups and Democrats that oil companies have manipulated refineries and oil inventories to drive up prices. Hastert also took aim at the rich pay package for Exxon Mobil Corp.'s retired chief executive, which he called "unconscionable."

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Democrats have been criticizing the administration as well as the oil companies for failing to take action to dampen the surge in prices, which have risen more than 40 cents a gallon in the Washington area and elsewhere in the past month.

more...

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060422/1020434.asp

Welcome to the (Democratic) party:

Democrats Call For Action to Prevent Gas Price Gouging
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2576270&mesg_id=2576270

Press Release of Senator Boxer
Boxer Seeks to Ease Soaring Gas Prices
Says Threat of Investigation Will Curtail Price Increases
http://boxer.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=238275

John Kerry: It’s Time for President Bush to Address Gas Prices, Dependence on Foreign Oil
Bush, Congressional Republicans Must Choose Between Special Interests and the American People
http://kerry.senate.gov/v3/cfm/record.cfm?id=236617

Kerry Says Gas Prices Help Bush's Friends
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101304J.shtml

Gas Prices
http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/09/gas_prices.php

[marmar]

1. Oh, whatever...

Only because their phone lines are probably jammed with pissed off callers. They'll call for the usual bullshit investigation, they'll conclude nothing is wrong and go back to business as usual. The Republican Party is a cesspool of corruption that's unable to change. Change means the end for them.

[Skittles]

2. exactly

these whoring bastards will haul the oil execs in again, won't even have the lying pieces of shit swear in, then after the dog and pony show the GOP does: nothing.

[Mel]

5. What marmar said!

RepubliCons might as well give it up (their seats) they are full of it and if anybody buys into their so called gonna' investigate high gas prices your just stupid!

Freepers you can feel all warm in the bankrupt ideas (or should I say lies, attacking others, and cheating) of your party for that is the only way you can ever win.

Rinse and Repeat dumb ass freepers Capitalism, the market rules, and if need be you can throw in it's the poor peoples fault, or the foreigners, or people of color, and don't let me forget the homosexuals you can feel all good and self- righteous about your selves!
Go ahead now and bark it out you automaton dummy heads (mean while the corporatistas laugh all the way offshore with our booty)!

Get ready for it freeps because up next, it's coming up hard behind you, your not going to being able to afford health care!
Yeaaaa! damn that Hitlerly Clintoon! You beat that pinko' didn't you? :sarcasm:
WoW look at what you got for it 'The Decider'

Happy Capitalism trails and screw The Commons! Ahh, but does one believe the freeps can still hang on to the warm idea from their boy Raygun? I got mine so screw you?

[The Blue Flower]

3. What a joke

bush, the dick, rice, et al are getting rich from price gouging. They're laughing all the way to the bank as they suck every last dime out of the working people of America. No one will ever convince me that bush is not the Manchurian candidate. The people behind him are dismantling this country for their own purposes.

[WePurrsevere]

4. Fox asks fellow fox to investigate egg shortage at the hen house...

after chickens brought major concern and evidence to farmers. *HUGH* story at 11 on Fox News. :freak:

Oh yeah I'm sure BushCo and the RepubliCONs will investigate this... just as well as they did 9-11, Katrina, Iraq Lies, the "leak", etc, etc, etc. :sarcasm: Although... since this impacts the Nov election they might find a volunteer bad guy to take a slap on the hand in time for the elections.. so they can say they did something. :eyes:

How can anyone with half a cell of gray matter left believe ANYTHING these thieves say any more? :banghead:

[OzarkDem]

6. By the White House

What a hoot!

I guess that means they're in favor of letting all the criminals in prison conduct their own trials.

[doc03]

7. I suggest a mirror!

[Lefty48197]

8. I'm looking forward to the Democrats taking over Congress

and having the two houses actually do their jobs, and investigate this sh*t themselves, without pretending to do something about the problem.

[Rageneau]

9. Kinda hard to get at the truth if nobody has to tell it.

If the GOP holds hearings, will Specter and the other rethugs insist that oil executives testify under oath, with appropriate penalties in force, or is demanding the truth from Big Oil too extreme a way to find out if Big Oil is price gouging?

[Minnesota Libra]

10. What? Those big SUVs costing too much these days?? what a joke nt

[radfringe]

11. GOP to Oil execs

GOPer: Are you price gouging at the pumps?

Oil execs: No

GOPer: Thank-you for your time. This ends the investigation, a report will follow shortly...