Big Oil Investigation
“It’s a real burden. I never thought it would be an economy of the car, but it is, “says Karen Kevra of Montpellier.
Gas prices are over $ 3.25 per gallon … Fill-up - means emptying your wallet.
“We hear every day, the oil companies make huge profits, while the rest of us are cockroaches to fill our cars to natural gas,” says Kevra.
“I do not think there is a lot we can do something,” says Christine Pfenning of South Burlington. “So they have to accept it.”
Non-said, a group of senators from the state.
“There is serious harm to our citizens,” said Sen. Bobby Starr, D-Essex/Orleans.
It adopted a resolution calling Vermont Attorney General’s oil companies. They say recent record gains might be illegal because the antitrust laws were violated. Senators major oil companies, the right to work together to maintain prices. If the state wins, it means perhaps millions of dollars.
“No, it’s not only a sense of good resolution, it is a serious resolution of serious consequences, if we succeed,” says Starr.
“That’s not a situation of David and Goliath, it’s King Kong and an ant,” said Bill Sorrell, D-Vt. Attorney General.
Sorrell, is it all its labour force, with a view to something great. That is to say that there has been no other instances, we would have had a look. He said it was a matter of the Federal Government and the Congress should not, by opening the file through a tax on profits.
“If the government comes, and then charging rule of evidence, what they do, keeping the prices that consumers pay - reluctantly - is not illegal on its face,” says Sorrell.
But senators say the need for action to help some Vermonters suffers from the pump.
“There’s a lot of oil, there is a lot of gas, and we should not pay $ 3 and a 1/2– four dollars - for these products,” says Starr.
Although Vermont’s Attorney General said that it would be impossible, on the big oil, it will speak with other countries, to see if they want to join in, perhaps, “he said with more resources - a possible case .
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