Ah, ye olde ‘price gouging’. Prove it, sport.
well, I don’t exactly have subpoena power to access oil company records, nor can I prove that the speculators have fixed the commodoties market, nor can I prove the OPEC drives prices up deliberatly
I do know a few things: BP is being investigated for price fixing in natural gas
oil companies also voluntarily reduced refining capacity in the past to drive up the price of oil and cut costs. In fact, it isn’t the EPA that shut down all the refineries-—it was the oil companies themselves