Similar to their recent defeat of steroids' use among MLB players, congress recently solved the oil profiteering ring. Good article on how inept it all really was:The Oilmen Cometh - Forbes.com
What to do? Get a smaller car, move closer to your job and buy oil stocks. Since late May 2004, the average retail price of gasoline in the U.S. has risen from $2.02 per gallon to $3.79 per gallon today, an increase of nearly 87%. In the same period, Exxon's stock price has leapt from $42.60 a share to $92.68 a share late Thursday, an increase of almost 118%.Posted by cmwillis at May 23, 2008 3:22 PM | TrackBack