Reply #11: It's Enron, all over again [View All]

[Warpy]

because that's how monopolies work.

The refiners all colluded and closed refineries at the same time, just before the peak season. The prices are being manipulated upward by that, alone.

Undoubtedly all those smart boys from Enron who laughed at little old ladies in California going hungry to pay their exorbitant light bills are now laughing at families who are going hungry so Mom and Dad can get to work.

All you can do is vote for Democrats and pressure them to enforce the damned antitrust laws and break up these monopolies, all of them, from energy to the press. If they don't do that, vote them out in the next election and keep doing that until they get the message.

Oh, and use this as an object lesson for your libertarian acquaintances in how unregulated "free trade" actually works in practice.