Institute for Liberal Values
by Jim Peron

11/18/05

The US was hit by several hurricanes that shut down a major portion of refining capacity. Now the fact remains that you could be sitting on a sea of oil but if you can only refine a small portion of it prices for the refined product will rise even if the price for the unrefined product is dropping. It's elementary economics thus beyond most politicians. So once again we have a dramatic disparity between the two products. Oil prices have dropped a bit but refined oil in the form of gasoline has dropped almost twice as fast. Not one Congressman or Senator has demanded an investigation to expose the cause. There is no political hay to be made from dropping prices so the politicians go mute...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp