If It’s $4 a Gallon Gas, Then There Must Be Oil Hearings in Congress

Crossposted from Curious Capitalist You can practically set your watch by it. As petroleum prices soar—and with them, oil company profits and pain at the gas pump—sooner or later members of Congress will haul Big Oil executives into a hearing and Demand That Something Be Done. It happened in 2008, the last time oil prices [...]