Attorney General Holder cites "disturbing" information on gas prices (2012 campaign well underway)

CNN ^ | 4/26/11 | Terry Frieden

[Libloather]

Attorney General Holder cites "disturbing" information on gas prices
By Terry Frieden, CNN Justice Producer
April 26, 2011 5:43 p.m. EDT

Washington (CNN) -- Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday "there are a couple of things that are disturbing" as the government launches its oil and gas fraud task force investigation into sharply rising gasoline prices.

In a meeting with reporters at the Justice Department, Holder declined to describe the "disturbing" matters, but made clear the broad investigation into potential fraud and other illegal activities would carefully comb industry information to search for wrongdoing.

Holder aides say they expect announcements next week. The task force is gearing up to look for price gouging, but will not yet include any criminal or civil charges.

"We are only in the very beginning phases of the investigation," Holder told reporters at the off-camera session in his office.

Holder's comments came as he was pressed about how his announcement of a task force would be different from similar announcements made by previous administrations when gas prices spiked, but that did not yield any prosecutions.

[nhwingut]

Sounds familiar....

1998: CHAVEZ: OIL COMPANY IS OUT OF CONTROL Venezuela's huge state oil company is feeling the wrath of Hurricane Hugo. President-elect Hugo Chavez, in stinging remarks since his triumph on Sunday, has pledged to audit its books and take more of its profits for social welfare spending.

[Caipirabob]

Eric Holder: “High gas prices are RACIST against MY PEOPLE!”

[RightGeek]

Can members of the cabinet be impeached?

[VideoDoctor]

Smoke & Mirrors. Nothing more, nothing less.

[SunkenCiv]

Everyone else in the country cites “disturbing” information on Attorney General Holder, and not for the first time. Thanks Libloather.

[demsux]

Well, THAT should bring down prices. /s

[Para-Ord.45]

History repeats itself:

Stalin claimed to find conspiracies and enemies everywhere. “Kulaks” were blamed for all agricultural failures, while “wreckers” bore responsibility for industrial disasters.

Museum of Communism

[Grundforsen]

What’s disturbing is that we are not accessing our natural resources - that is what’s disturbing.

[Liz]

....it’s “disturbing” that the Obama Administration, and all of its appointees in govt agencies, including Holder, are doing everything in their power to undermine the US and preventing us from using our own domestic sources.....

You got that right----US national security is at stake.

We keep being told that producing our own vast energy resources is an "environmental issue?" Baloney. Enviro issues are strictly agit-prop.

The stunning reality is that the US has vast reserves of energy ---- offshore oil, natural gas, coal. Oil companies have had tremendous success unlocking big quantities of natural gas from dense shale rock formations in North America. We're talking about TRILLIONS of barrels of oil equivalent in shale natural gas.

ACTION NOW We need to alert the PTB that we are onto the gross manipulation by those who are colluding, who want the US to sink trillions in the Mideast......including war profiteers getting rich beyond Croesus with our tax dollars------and by Mideast countries too stupid to govern themselves without US "foreign aid." "America is dependent on foreign oil" is a knee-jerk reaction, a bunch of propaganda.......The Big Lie which forced America into invading three ME countries at a cost of trillions of US tax dollars.

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The US gets a huge 25% of its oil needs from nearby Canada----which will increase in the near future. The red-hot center of the 21st century's gold rush is the western Canadian province of Alberta. Spread under 54,363 square miles of boreal forest -- a little less than the land area of Florida -- lie proven reserves of 174 billion barrels, second only to Saudi Arabia's.

What with engineering know-how, huge advances in technology, and the $$$$trillions to be made----a small $100 billion investment will get the Canadian reserves out of the ground in no time....

All in our own backyard, just down a country road, and over the bridge, from bucolic, peaceful New England.

[RWB Patriot]

The only thing “disturbing” is that dear leader is still in office after all this is happening.

[Gene Eric]

The “Big Bad Oil” campaign continues...