Thread: Whither Barbara Boxer’s Outrage Over Gasoline Prices?

Outrageous gouging of We, the little people

Whither Barbara Boxer’s Outrage Over Gasoline Prices?

By John Lillpop
Friday, January 14, 2011

Has anyone noticed that gasoline prices have exploded and regular unleaded is now over $3.00 a gallon?.

Oil is nearing $100 a barrel, so $4 dollar a gallon is inevitable!

So where in Hades is Barbara Boxer? Why is she not raising bloody hell and demanding an investigation into this gouging of the American people?

Back in 2004, Mrs. Boxer saw fit to assail big oil, President George W. Bush, and all Republicans because unleaded gasoline was priced at $2.11 a gallon.

$2.11 a gallon? According to this arrogant lefty, that was the work of evil capitalists.

As reported, in part, at (link): http://boxer.senate.gov/gas/index.cfm

“Thursday, March 11, 2004

“Washington, D.C.- U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today met with Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy Muris to discuss the sharp rise in gasoline prices in California.

“On February 24, 2004, Boxer sent a letter to Chairman Muris asking him to investigate the rise in gasoline prices for possible market manipulation. At that time, California gasoline prices had increased 16.1 cents in a week, compared to 4 cents nationally.

“As of Wednesday, March 10, the average price of a gallon of unleaded gasoline in California is $2.11 per gallon, compared to $1.82 a month ago.

“The following are excerpts of Senator Boxer’s remarks following her meeting:

“The FTC agrees that there is an anomaly in California prices. In English, that means that the prices are going up faster than the factors that FTC uses to predict normal prices would indicate.

They (FTC) have started an informal investigation, which pleases me very much. Why have they done this? Because so far they cannot explain this phenomenon.

Right now they are in the early stages of this informal investigation, and I am today urging people in California to please contact us, or contact the FTC, or contact California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, and please let us know if there is any reason to believe that refineries are being taken off line unnecessarily, or there is collusion going on in any way.

“Of course I want a full blown investigation, I want a formal investigation- but I’m here to say that the FTC is in the process of an informal investigation, and to me there is a lot of hope that they have found this to be an anomaly.â€

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$100 OIL: DEAL WITH IT http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40811733/ns ... nd_energy/

Rising Gasoline Prices Put Consumers in Sour Mood... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1415083720110114

DRILL HERE AND RIGHT NOW!

She is AWOL because to bring up the cost of gas now would spotlight the idotic energy policies of her party. When Bush was prez it was easy to blame him and the fat cats for the high prices. The truth is that our energy policies are damaged both by the fat cats refusal to move to alternative sources and the Democrats idiotic refusal to allow nuclear power, or interim drilling for our own resources until we can transition to new fuel sources.