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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (78722)	8/1/2006 7:11:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Your argument seems to be that 85% or 95% price increases, equal robbery, price-fixing, or evidence for a cartel. That's just nonsense. It's also all connected to the Bush-Cheney movement to do away with environmental protections Very little environmental law has been done away with. What has happened is new environmental regulation has greatly slowed down. Slowing down environmental regulation actually helps keep the price of oil and gasoline lower than it would have otherwise been. Putting oil drilling sites out of bounds, making it more difficult and expensive to build a refinery, or requiring more complex blends of gasoline increases gasoline prices. In fact one reason that gas prices went down quite a bit after the first bump up post-Katrina was that some gasoline related environmental requirements where temporarily relaxed.