Gary, you might want to get out of Indiana every once in awhile before you support a Big Oil Filibuster.
Two weeks ago, I drove to Okeechobee, Fla., and back. Gas was never over $3 a gallon once I crossed the Ohio River. Kentucky and Tennessee averaged $2.97. Georgia was more - $2.93-$2.95. Florida, from the Georgia line to Okeechobee, was never over $2.93. Most gas in Florida was more like $2.87. Alabama, on the way back, was around $2.87. When I left Warsaw, it was $3.58, and when I came back, gas was still $3.58. This weekend I drove to Kentucky. What was gas in Warsaw on 6-8-2007? Something like $3.40, right?
Crossing the Ohio River again, gas went to $2.97. Further into Kentucky I found gas at $2.73. When I arrived just south of Mount Sterling, Ky., gas was $2.57. What a surprise, right? To be fair, I usually agree with you 95 percent of the time, but on this gas issue, Gary, you are totally off base.
The sponsored Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act should be just a start. I believe that there cannot be a fair and legitimate reason for gas to be this high in Indiana. Even if all the Midwest refineries were shut down, oil companies would make a tidy profit trucking gas from Kentucky to Indiana. Indecently, the price around Cincinnati was even cheaper than Warsaw, Ind.
America cannot operate without gasoline and diesel, and must be regulated if the oil companies cannot set at a fair, all-around-price.
