Political critics owe American oil firms an apology

Apologize and do it now, Barack Obama, John McCain and all you members of Congress who ranted about Big Oil’s price-gouging and the way future-markets speculators were abusing the wallets of consumers at the gas pump.

Those prices have come down to the lowest level in almost four years, something like $2 a gallon on the average, and you know why


By the same token, you know or should have known why prices were recently as high as $4 a gallon