Jay Honeck wrote:

Thousands of gas stations jacking gas prices nationwide, in lock-step with
each other, because of a trumped up "disaster" (and in the face of the
release of the Strategic Oil Reserve, which will totally off-set any effect
of Katrina) is not "entrepreneurship" -- it's criminal.

The stuff in the reserve is crude, still has to be refined...
Some of the strategic reserves are in the effected area, gotta have
power and fuel to move it...