Let's face it ~ the right wing won't do anything about the unscrupulous oil speculators because they seem to WANT gas prices to remain high in hopes it will fulfill their goal ..... to 'make Obama a one term President.' It goes to show they don't give a damn about America and will suffer the consequences themselves in order to make it happen.
Three cheers for U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and the other Democrats following his lead to stop oil speculators!!
Democrat hits road to fight oil speculators
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and other Democrats aren’t waiting any longer for a federal commission to restrict oil speculators from driving up the price of gasoline.
Brown, up for re-election in November, announced in Columbus yesterday that he is a co-sponsor of legislation that would force the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to act.
“We know to expect gas prices to go up in the summer,” Brown said while standing in the parking lot of a Shell station in German Village. “But gas prices shouldn’t be going up like they are now, as dramatically as they are.”
Brown and 70 other lawmakers wrote to the commission this month, urging that it “do what the law mandates and end excessive oil speculation once and for all.
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