Governors Call For Presidential Inquiry Into Rising Gas Prices

[Newsjock]

http://komotv.com/stories/30692.htm
Look at the smoking gun!
Governors Call For Presidential Inquiry Into Rising Gas Prices

By Bryan Johnson

SEATTLE - Ten Democratic Governors, including Washington State's Gary Locke, are asking President Bush to launch an immediate investigation into rising gasoline prices, particularly on the West Coast.

... Tim Hamilton, an industry watchdog for independent gasoline dealers, told KOMO 4 News: "It's not the Sierra Club, it's not our taxes, it's not OPEC. It's simply the marketing schemes and shorting the energy needs of the West that's causing them (the gas companies) to be able to get this money."

Oil companies tend to dismiss Tim Hamilton and his watchdog group, but there's a twist. Someone at Shell disobeyed company orders and e-mailed Hamilton copies of confidential financial records.

They detail the profit margins for refineries. In Texas, the profit is about $7.50 a barrel. In our state, the profit is twice as high. Hamilton says that amounts to about thirty cents a gallon increase profit for every 42-gallon barrel.

Shell records show even higher profits in California. The comment of one Shell official written on the leaked document was: "Wow."

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[alittlelark]

1. Once those rocks get turned over

you will find nasty squirmy insects...........I hope they have the opportunity to keep squirmin' under the harsh glare of the American people.

[Virginian]

2. Presidential Inquiry Into Rising Gas Prices

Dubya: "Hey Dick, You know anything about gouging the people on the West coast"?
VP: "Yup."
Dubya: "I've looked into the rising gas prices in California. They are getting higher." (end of report)

[barbaraann]

3. I'll bet there's a mathematical correlation between prices

and the margin of Al Gore's victory in the states that are being overcharged. The BFEE is obsessed with revenge and retribution.

[Lori Price CLG]

6. Exactamundo! CA, IL, NY, and CT have the highest prices...

...and are amongst the 'Bluest' states. Great observation by poster barbaraann.

:)-Lori

[Habibi]

4. California seems to get regularly screwed

energy-wise. :wtf:

[teryang]

5. Farmers ask fox to investigate

...henhouse killings.

[Lorien]

7. As David Brancacchio said on NOW last week

since we have a record deficit in this country, foreign investors are uneasy about investing in America, and have turned elsewhere, driving down the value of the dollar against other major currencies. Since oil prices are set in American dollars, is takes more dollars to equal the same prices in Euros or pesos, etc., therefore prices to American consumers are higher, while they are relatively unchanged elsewhere. So, it really IS Bush's* fault!(Though price gouging certainly can't be ruled out here at home).

[fearnobush]

8. It's all part of the Bush, Chaney, and yes...Ken Lay scam to get the

porked out of control energy bill passed and to make excuses to drill in Anwhar and to smear Kerry as a gas taxer. They (Dirty Bush Fuckers) are trying to convince the sheeple that the high gas prices are all Kerry's fault. Really, this is classic Rove 101 stuff. Don't be fooled by it again - Remember those rolling blackouts? all bogus.