Comments on: FTC Head Overseeing Gas Gouging Probe Was Chevron Lawyer

By: Suzanne Norman

Suzanne Norman — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:06:48 +0000

It is strange how I remember the oil embargo back in 72-74? When people in Los Angeles had to wait 3 or more hours in a gas station line to fill up, the local government also imposed odd and even days meaning that if your license plate ended in a even number on a particular day you could fill up your tank. However, what has been done since this time to assure that the same oil shortages do not occur? Where is the funding for research on alternatives fuels been for the last 30 years? There is none because big oil want their pockets lined at the expense of the hard working american. It’s time we changed our thinking and start seriously focusing on alternative measures of fuel consumption. Just don’t know where to start!!

By: Pravda Redux » Blog Archive » Through the Looking Glass An Ecomaginary Voyage Through The Wonderland Of Washington

Sat, 27 May 2006 18:03:46 +0000

[...] If this policy had been in place before the Enron collapse no one would be on trial now. It could have been handled like the Federal Trade Commission investigation into the big oil price gouging. The FTC head was pulled from the corporate attorney’s for Texaco. Now that’s efficency. [...]

By: Think Progress » Bowing to Public Pressure, House Conservatives Back Crackdown on Gas Price Gouging

Thu, 04 May 2006 00:32:48 +0000

[...] The bill, modeled after legislation put forward by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), is an important first step. But even it becomes law, cracking down on price gouging will still require aggressive action by the Bush administration, specifically the Federal Trade Commission. Unfortunately, the Bush-appointed chair of the FTC is Deborah Majoras. Her previous job experience: representing Chevron-Texaco and “other major oil and gas interests.” [...]

By: Cory Kerr

Cory Kerr — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:16:35 +0000

I was wandering how oil companies can make record profits when we are paying record prices? me being a college student I have to drive a couple of hours just to go home and it is getting to expensive just to go see my family and I really want to know what is actually going to happen with the gas prices.

By: hotfroggy+

hotfroggy+ — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:41:01 +0000

i read think progress everyday and i am always “jaw-dropped” astonded at the bull sh*t that this administration shoves down our throats. god these jokers simply must be replaced. how embarassing to be a registered republican! i’m not a big fan of the dems, but someone, somewhere has to get our collective poop together or we all face certain extinction as a nation, if not a species. this admistration would just as soon blow us all up (remember their amageddon death wish!) as give up one cent to improving our lives!!!!

By: Ryan Olson

Ryan Olson — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:47:05 +0000

Well we all know why a tiny group of families, who control most of America, have put their minions into office to investigate themselves, to doubletalk us into believing that everythings ok and they aren’t criminals. We can see they are lying. When an ex-Chevron attorney because the head of the FTC we can see big business and the military industrial complex pulling the strings they have connected over our constitutional republic. They set up the office to control issues and they install their spies to take down our freedom and empower their oligopoly. Find more info on these evil geniuses at Prisonplanet.tv InfoWars.com PropagandaMatrix.com

By: FTC Head overseeing gas gouging probe was Chevron lawyer - Brokekid.net

FTC Head overseeing gas gouging probe was Chevron lawyer - Brokekid.net — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:41:12 +0000

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By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:39:39 +0000

The hurricanes are a perfect smoke screen for the Bushco crowd to slip in all the dirty little tricks they want, while the networks yell and scream like nothing else is happening.

By: Doug Spath

Doug Spath — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:24:22 +0000

Yet another politician following the footsteps of the previous president. Get your second term and forget about the working class and stuff your pocket with donation money and retirement job availability. I voted for Bush because I know the country would be worse off with him in office. But I guess we were all dupped again. Bush has the means and the authority to cap the prices of gasoline, yet he refuses to do so because of his election supporters in Texas. What is going to happen to the poor pea-on barely making ends meet (working for the government no less) and facing the prospect of paying 5.00 dollars a gallon for heating oil, and 5.00 for natural gas! What are we supposed to do freeze while accepting displaced refugees from Katrina and Rita.

By: good vibes

good vibes — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:16:59 +0000

check this out…http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=19648

Damn it!

By: Sam S.

Sam S. — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:47:19 +0000

How long before we all pay with scrip at the company store?
I’m convinced that this is a one giant energy scam perpetrated on the American public, and if we ever get out of this administration’s mess, we will find out just how badly we have been duped.

By: Bill Press Show

Bill Press Show — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:48:24 +0000

[...] Checking in with Think Progress finds surprising news about the woman overseeing the latest gas gouging probe: [...]

By: SpudgeBoy

SpudgeBoy — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 05:41:23 +0000

Ryan,

Yep.

Exactly.

We are much alike you and I.

By: Ryan Neat

Ryan Neat — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 05:31:56 +0000

SpudgeBoy,

Their ‘working class’ were slaves. In fact only athenian ‘citizens’ could vote, the slaves that actually did all of the work had no rights despite their otherwise enlightened values. And they were the ‘best’ of the early civilizations. In fact the jews were slaves in both egypt and babylon(mesopotamia) before escaping…

The practice of slavery and servitude were so entrenched in the near east. Christianity even codifies this as ‘normal’, and this was used as the basis for christians owning slaves in this country until the 19th century.

Genesis 9:25-27: “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers. He also said, ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem. May God extend the territory of Japheth; may Japeth live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his slave’. ”

Christians traditionally believed that Canaan had settled in Africa. The dark skin of Africans became associated with this “curse of Ham.” Thus slavery of Africans became religiously justifiable.

A theologic ‘antidote’ was found in Paul’s writing, and eventually this was accepted by rightwing churches as a face saving method of ‘getting over’ slavery. But as some of the republican trolls have shown on here, the underlying bigotry that is part of that legacy of slavery never went away…

Galatians 3:28: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free…for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”

Utopias have always been such for the rich – as they tend to write and control the history. And this isn’t just an issue with western culture. A ’slave class’ always ends up getting exploited in most cultures. The maya crashed and burned because they exploited the farmers. China has long exploited the peasants for the benefit of the emperor. This is an old and honorable tradition of exploitation..

By: SpudgeBoy

SpudgeBoy — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 05:11:55 +0000

#16

Isn’t Ancient Rome always described as being a utopia? How about Ancient Greece? Ancient Egypt? Messipotamia? Babylon?

I am sure they were a utopia, for the rich. It was probably a living hell for the working class.

I hope we don’t slide too far down that slippery slope.

By: twoplustwoisfour

twoplustwoisfour — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:33:31 +0000

Here is a word to spell: KLEPTOCRACY

By: cynical ex-hippie

cynical ex-hippie — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 03:58:59 +0000

This is their biggest chance yet to hammer a conservative agenda into the heart of America. They’re going to throw everything including the kitchen sink into this hurricane. Their goal is to show that conservative ideology fixes everything, and if they get their way they will destroy everything they see as “liberal” and build in its place a free market utopia.

But most of us know utopias aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.

By: Ryan Neat

Ryan Neat — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:56:53 +0000

The GOP is now trying to axe PBS to pay for katrina. They’re using yet another disaster of their making, to futher screw up the country, undermine democracy and squash what’s left of an independent press. These fascists are clearly off of the Hitler block…

By: Ryan Neat

Ryan Neat — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:24:16 +0000

Spudge,

Yeah – isn’t that hard to believe? Wonder how the trolls feel about that betrayal.

By: afterthought

afterthought — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:23:44 +0000

But, I don’t wish FUBAR on AutoZone(TM).
They are an early Linux conversion, and
are having to fight the SCO scum.