Bush should demand that his oil buddies stop gouging the American consumer by raising prices after Hurricane Katrina

Gas prices are soaring as Bush's oil buddies now gouge the American consumer with record high prices. Why are they raising prices now? Is the supply threatened? No one is claiming that. Sure, they're giving us all this bull about production being down blah blah blah, and I'm sure that fact is true, but has anyone told us that there isn't enough gas? No. Has anyone told us that the oil companies are losing money after Katrina and thus need to raise prices to compensate? No. The oil companies simply raised prices so they could make more money off of us and make more money off of the tragedy in the south.

Call it the oil companies' own little death tax.

President Bush ought to call on the oil companies to stop the price gouging, lower their prices to pre-Katrina levels, and donate the windfall they've already earned off of the dead to the relief effort.

Perhaps some enterprising Democrat will even demand this.

Perhaps.