Reply #7: He was already planning on doing this BEFORE Katrina:

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http://dorgan.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=243935

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Thursday, August 18, 2005
DORGAN CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION OF GASOLINE PRICES AND WANTS WINDFALL PROFITS TAX ON OIL COMPANIES


(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND) Thursday called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to begin the formal investigation of oil and gas prices that is required in the new energy bill just signed by President Bush.

Dorgan, who authored the provision that requires an investigation, said current oil and gasoline prices are not the product of an open and transparent market. There is plenty of room and opportunity for consumers to be gouged by oil companies wanting to cash in on OPEC price fixing, he said.

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“The current dramatic spikes in gasoline prices are forcing consumers to pay higher prices and are providing fat profits for the major oil companies and the OPEC countries,” Dorgan said.

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“This has nothing to do with a free market,” Dorgan maintained. “It is about the OPEC countries and the major oil companies profiting in a controlled market that rewards them and penalizes our consumers.”

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He also said he saw a bumper sticker the other day that said 'I fought the gas war and the gas won'.