No gas shortage????

The former senate majority leader Trent Lott was on the Tony Snow show last week and proudly proclaimed that he was not a conservative but a populist (as if we didn’t know that before – but at least he’s got the titles correct this time around). He further railed against the oil companies and their windfall profits. Even his first statement was absurd: “there was no supply-demand imbalance.” Right. And the fact that it took me three stores to find one that had gasoline was what? The refinery production in the gulf was shut down for days, the use of gasoline spiked as everyone filled up in the face of cuts, and this senator thinks there was no supply/demand imbalance? Give me a break.