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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Put a Shyster in Your Tank

Best of the Web - Wall Street Journal:
Growing global demand and a weak dollar have given us $4-a-gallon gasoline. The way to lower prices would seem obvious: pump more oil domestically and strengthen the dollar. That's too obvious for Congress, apparently, which instead wants to solve the problem through litigation:

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure.
The bill would subject OPEC oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, to the same antitrust laws that U.S. companies must follow.
The measure passed in a 324-84 vote, a big enough margin to override a presidential veto.
This idiocy is bipartisan, with a majority of Republicans joining all but two Democrats in supporting the bill. If this bill becomes law and the Justice Department goes ahead with it, remember when you're paying $6 a gallon that a good chunk of that is going to lawyers' fees.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

When the people finally decide that much of this problem has been caused by the government, maybe something will be done. Until then, we will continue to suffer from high gasoline prices.
Sue OPEC? The Arabs must be wetting their pants from laughter. This is what passes for leadership in Washington.