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Pot Calls Kettle Black
The Congress of the United States of America never ceases to amaze me. I only heard snippets of the grilling of oil company executives, but it seems to me it is a classic example of the “pot calling the kettle black.” Do I wish I had invested in oil rather than airlines? Yes! But oil company executives don’t set the price of oil –speculators do. Isn’t our whole economy based on the premise that one charges what the market will bear? That’s Capitalism. It’s better than Socialism, right! And these people in Congress who do NOTHING but talk (there have been 45 such excursions into “gas” pricing without so much…