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SleeplessinSoCal

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16. Maddow also reported that several Senators on top of this

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Sat Dec 1, 2012, 01:39 AM

Dec 2012

"The U.S. Department of Justice should investigate possible “market manipulation and false reporting by oil refineries” which may have spiked prices at the pump in May and October, Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, D-Wash., said Tuesday in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder.

The senators cited history — the 2001 manipulation of the energy market by Enron — and a recent report released to the California State Senate by McCullough Research. The report revealed that price spikes occurred while crude oil prices were on the decline and inventories were rising."

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2012/11/27/have-oil-refiners-pumped-the-public-senators-to-feds-find-out/

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Rachel Maddow just informed Ca. residents that we were duped by the Gas Companies for [View all] busterbrown Nov 2012 OP

Nationalize Energy! onehandle Nov 2012 #1

and health care abelenkpe Nov 2012 #3

Absolutely! I Agree! mckara Dec 2012 #12

Exactly! Champion Jack Dec 2012 #26

And the insurance industry DiverDave Dec 2012 #31

Why am I not surprised? nt abelenkpe Nov 2012 #2

go to jail goclark Nov 2012 #4

Prison for all of them Angry Dragon Nov 2012 #8

Sounds good, but they run the country. They own Congress. Now what? nm rhett o rick Dec 2012 #13

Holder ain't gonna do jack shit. LuvLoogie Nov 2012 #5

Yes his purpose Politicalboi Nov 2012 #7

Holder is an embarrassment. And I have to blame Obama for that. (It's never really the employee, robinlynne Dec 2012 #11

Agree. Holder does what he is told. nm rhett o rick Dec 2012 #14

The recurring fires are suspicious as well panAmerican Nov 2012 #6

Indeed. The fires thing 2naSalit Dec 2012 #17

Yes, those 'upgrades' are bogus. TheBlackAdder Dec 2012 #19

Yes...I read about it Roselma Nov 2012 #9

What a surprise. nt demosincebirth Nov 2012 #10

Where's Erin Brachovich? ReRe Dec 2012 #15

This Erin Brockovich? TheBlackAdder Dec 2012 #18

Yeah... ReRe Dec 2012 #23

That looks like 1 side of a complex story to me - nt dreamnightwind Dec 2012 #28

Maddow also reported that several Senators on top of this SleeplessinSoCal Dec 2012 #16

Not surprised sakabatou Dec 2012 #20

If this was a CA problem then... WHY did gas start going up here in TN Tippy Dec 2012 #21

So that everybody else wouldn't feel left out. 2naSalit Dec 2012 #24

This is just like what they did to oust Gray Davis as Governor of CA with Enron's help DFW Dec 2012 #22

That bastard, 2naSalit Dec 2012 #25

Ya gotta love that Free Market! Walk away Dec 2012 #27

Quelle surprise Hekate Dec 2012 #29

When she mentioned there being a tool in the Justice Department MFrohike Dec 2012 #30

PG&E got busted for this in the early '00's for doing the same thing... Buddyblazon Dec 2012 #32

Pasadena, iirc, kept its public utilities public Hekate Dec 2012 #33

So did Los Angeles and they were also spared. n/t Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #34