Fed up with being fed up
I am sick of this whole "gas crisis" thing.
Sure, the oil companies are having record profits, but that's because they are taking a small slice of a very big pie. If you look at the price relationship between a gallon of crude and a gallon of gas, the finished product should actually be higher than it is. So if the gas companies really are out to screw us, why aren't the prices more relational?
And you know, this "investigation" is just another step towards Socialism. The next thing you know, the gas companies will be "nationalized" so as to "better protect the consumer." Which of course, never works. Putting something driven by market forces into the hands of bureaucrats will only exacerbate the situation. Price controls will lead to shortages or rationing, and a return to the long lines of the 70's.
If you want to do something about "getting gouged" by high gas prices, invest heavily in oil company stocks. That's where all of the "obscene" profits are going.