[Baron Munchausen]

Oh, it's not necessary for them to 'deliberately' arrange for accidents. They and the government knew quite well that a major hurricane like Katrina could shut down a major part of our national refinery capacity. But the corporate boards didn't want to cut into their profits by buying more refinery capacity than absolutely necessary to met demand and the government didn't want to violate the 'free market' by forcing them to. So now that the inevitable has happened, we all pay the price and the owners of Exxon, Shell, BP, etc. make even fatter profits off of a disaster. What do they care if ordinary working people who can barely afford to drive to work every day are being ruined by this huge price rise?