Quote Originally Posted by StrictMasterD View Post
If anyone knows, thisi s a question, not a trick one meaning I know the answer but wantto see if anyone else does
Can ANY Presieent through Executive Order, force Oil Companes to Lower Prices on Gas? I know trhis may sound funny but does ANY Presidenr or even Congress have this Authority?
Aren't price controls un-American? Whatever happened to the free market?

Of course it's not a free market, it's a highly organised oligopoly, but so is every major industry and that never stopped them invoking free market economics to justify their gouging.