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Bluster on the Hill.
The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday, June 6:
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When voters get mad enough, Congress gets going.
And so the House of Representatives recently passed a bill against gasoline price gouging.
Never mind that the bill is so vague that a gas station owner couldn't reasonably know when or if he's violating it. Never mind that there's no evidence that any actual price gouging is occurring.
Whenever gas prices jump, Congress and state regulators order an investigation. Invariably, the probe finds no price rigging by the oil companies, just big profits. That was the verdict of the Federal ...
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