Gas prices to raise in wake of RitaFollow

This was one of the many transgressions Enron was guilty of. They created fake "congestion on the grid" that caused all those rolling brownouts.

If a group of individuals had conspired to knock out power to millions of people, it would have been called terrorism.

But a major corporation does it and it's merely fraud.




[sm]On a related note, Kozlowski got 8 to 25 years.

You're such a gentleman.

Forgive me,...

i think its bush's fault again...

he promised green peace tree huggin hippys to have a cirtain percentage of alternate energy sources by whatever year, so he got with the oil powers that be and made a deal with them that they could find some stupid excuses to raise gas prices to get the general public to "buy in" using alternate energy sources.

and hey, you get rich, i get re-elected, and shhhhhhh...you can slip me some bill under the counter.

conspiracys abound

It's because they are not allowed to run oil tankers into each other like they did in the past.

You can move the refined oil from the refinery to the port for loading on a ship. It doesn't *have* to be refined right there.

We manage to transport tons of refined oil all over the country all the time. How do you think the gas gets into the station's tanks in someplace like Denver? Not many ships docking there either...