Attorney General asked to investigate oil companies
(Host) The Senate wants Vermont Attorney General for the State to consider whether the price-fixing agreements oil companies and gouging customers.
Senator Bobby Starr represents counties of Essex and Orleans. He wants to know why the public pay record prices, while oil companies deserve a record result.
(Starr), “There are not many major oil companies today. And the great man puts price, and the smallest, then follow along. Thus, there are laws against this sort of thing. ”
Starr (Host) has a Trucking Company. But he said, the public is for the payment of high fuel prices, because the cost to the public.
(Starr) “And whenever one of my consumers, which I represent, in business, to buy food, clothing to buy, for the purchase of necessity for the survival of the family, there will be a Supplement In these products, because the fuel costs for transportation, which has costs for all of these items. ”
(Host), the President of the Senate said Peter Shumlin governmental and federal laws, the government scrutiny over pricing.
(Shumlin) “I think what is lacking is precisely now, the political will on the part of political leaders to stand up and say something is wrong, schäumte our citizens, our economy is down, profits oil companies. Why Not us, and a whole, and it is easy to ask for price gouging, there have been agreements on prices? How is it, they are so good, and we do so poorly? ”
(Host) All 30 members of the Senate, have signed, calling for the dissolution of the investigation. Governor Jim Douglas, he says its part of the concern of the Senate, but he believes it is preferable for Congress, the issue at hand.
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