November 2, 2005
Republicans in the Senate need to get a grip in respect of energy prices. The Energy and Commerce committees are getting set to grill, next week, oil executives on why profits are so high while prices are high, too. As if convening hearings on such a tautological question weren't bad enough, at least a few allegedly Republican senators appear dangerously close to stretching out the greedy hand to "solve" the "problem," and one of those has already defected to the dark side.