For all you oil alarmists and fern fondlers...

[brvopilot]

Best idea I've heard yet (from Branson of course!)

http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews/2005/09/14/branson-virgin-airline-cx_cn_0914autofacescan02.html

If the airline business fails you make money selling oil, if the oil prices drop you make money selling tickets...brillant!

Although if he is having a hard time legally buying an airline in the US I am betting his chances of starting a refinery here are not very good either

 

[Smacktard]

there does seem to be some price gouging going on. glad i don't have a H2

State investigators (many states) have been able to prove nothing as far as price gouging going on. You certainly won't find it at the oil supplier level. It's the retailers that everyone wants to blame. Most folks don't realize that retailers pay the daily wholesale price for gasoline, even with gas on hand, they're forced to raise prices with increasing wholesale prices. The rest of the folks that blame the rich, Bush loving, greedy oil companies aren't educated enough to understand how government involvement and not board of director's greed is to blame for high oil prices. Look only to your representatives in Congress for the real answer.