Gas Price Musings

We can't help but take note that every time the public's attention is diverted for a while (thank you? Anna Nicole and Paris), gas prices take an upward spiral - and that the spiral levels off mysteriously as soon as previously distracted Joe Sixpack contacts his Congressman and hearings are scheduled. Amid much chin music about "refinery capacity" and OPEC production that the MSM happily pass along without a critique, Big Oil continues to pile up the record profits. Hmmm... let me put in a fact-checking call to this oil industry PR firm, Dewey, Cheatham and Howe (apologies to the Three Stooges - no, not Rudy McRomney, the original Three Stooges).