Good News! Fletcher, Stumbo Agree You Are A Hurricane Katrina Victim
I'm getting pretty tired of the role reversals in politics giving us "conservative" politicians who eagerly embrace a liberal mind-set. Yesterday, Ernie Fletcher joined hands with Greg Stumbo and proclaimed that all Kentuckians are hurricane victims under a state of emergency from a 2005 Gulf Coast storm and we are going to stay victims for the forseeable future.
When Greg Stumbo's Deputy Attorney General Pierce Whites attacked Marathon Oil under Kentucky's poorly conceived price gouging law saying "there is no constitutional right to price gouge," he was taking a position that might help Stumbo in the upcoming Democratic primary.
Populism traditionally seeks to deny the laws of economics and promote vagueness in favor government power in the name of "doing something."
What's disappointing is how Ernie Fletcher played along in response to Marathon Oil's lawsuit seeking to improve or remove Kentucky's price gouging law. Kentucky has been in a state of emergency since Fletcher declared one on August 30, 2005.
The lawsuit asks the court to void Fletcher's emergency declaration or set a time limit on it.
Fletcher interpreted that as an attack on the powers of his office.
"The fact of the matter is the executive order stands and it has the full force of law, and we'll be defending that aspect of the suit," Fletcher said.
What's even more disappointing is that neither of Fletcher's primary opponents are going to call him on this. The electorate has moved so far left that the smart political money rests firmly on the side of calling ourselves victims and suing our largest service providers for providing services.
posted by Kentucky Progress @ 5/12/2007 08:11:00 AM
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I'm a regular Speedway customer so when do I get my money Greg and Ernie? Oh the state gets it on my behalf-I see. You're welcome.
I've been buying gas at Speedway/Super America ever since "The Rev." Louie Coleman called for a boycott of them.
Truthfully, I never saw gas prices significantly higher at Speedway than anywhere else.
The collusion is what he really should go after.
Yeah, that's the old joke: if your prices are higher you are gouging, if they are lower you are competing unfairly, and if they are the same you are colluding.
Think about it ....
It makes sense if you lower your price when the competitor does, because you don't want your business to go to him.
But why raise it the same amount within minutes after seeing him change his price? Especially if you buy your gas from a different company?
Makes no sense for BP (is it still British owned) to go up right after Shell (Dutch), right after Citgo (Venezuela with the oil coming from South American instead of the Middle East), right after Marathon (based in Ohio, which is definitely a foreign country).
If gas refined from oil pumped from the Gulf goes up after a hurricane, that's understandable. But why should gas refined from oil imported from the Middle East go up?
These companies don't all buy their gas from the same source and thus all have to raise it when the wholesale price goes up. I daresay that Exxon's gas doesn't come from the same source of oil as Citgo's gas.
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