For years the gas industry has suffered from seasonal Alzheimer’s and would cry wolf about not knowing that the demand would increase during the summer months and their would be a shortage, which in turn, would generate higher prices and more revenue for themselves. Needless to say, usually after each summer a miracle would occur and the gas companies would miraculously find more supplies. Unfortunately the masses would play into this shortage, fueled by the communications media. For each summer there would be a tirade of interviews and pundits saying how the minor increase of perhaps ten cents a gallon would severely impede one’s travel. Where, in essence, ten cents a gallon literally would translate to perhaps ten dollars (for 100 gallons of fuel) for any major vacation traveler. But now when the price of gas hits and hurts everyone perhaps it is too little too late. Are we the voting public going to have another seasonal congressional hearing about the rise in cost? Are we the voting public going to get answers this time? Or, in reality, are we the voting public going, once again, be the ones to barely be able to buy a newspaper and read about the billions in profits of the gas companies?
