[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7343]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                            HIGH GAS PRICES

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, government investigators said, and I 
quote, there is no conspiracy by petroleum companies to raise gas 
prices in America. Unbelievable.
  Who is kidding whom here? Gas prices are over $2 a gallon, and, in 
addition, it just seems every weekend they just raise them 25 cents a 
gallon just for the sake of it.
  Mr. Speaker, if that is not enough to flatulate your rectangle, the 
oil companies announced that gas prices will hit $3 a gallon this 
summer.
  Beam me up, Mr. Speaker; those so-called government investigators are 
either on the payroll of those oil companies or they are smoking dope.
  I yield back the biggest rip-off in the history of the United States 
of America.

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