..Substitute fuel price conspiracies for fraudulent faith healing, and my dad’s fake pastors have nothing on our politicians.
During June of 2013, Democrats in the Michigan House unveiled LowerMIGasPrices.com.
It was a Web page dedicated to a legislative resolution calling on Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette to investigate whether “big oil companies” were “colluding to unfairly increase gas prices.”
It was a Web page dedicated to a legislative resolution calling on Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette to investigate whether “big oil companies” were “colluding to unfairly increase gas prices.”
“If the cost for gasoline is being unfairly set by unscrupulous producers, wholesalers or retailers,” said House Democratic Leader Tim Greimel of Auburn Hills, “those vendors need to be prosecuted.”
Republican State Sen. Rick Jones of Grand Ledge created a similar stir by calling on Congress to look into the prices.
Shortly thereafter, I demonstrated that if price collusion was really taking place, then “big oil” was doing a poor job of it.
The price of gasoline in August of 2013 was $3.60 per gallon, roughly the same - inflation adjusted - as the price paid in Michigan way back in 1981.
...Is it an accident the Democrats’ “War on Women” drumbeat increased in intensity as those gasoline prices fell?
Probably no more a coincidence than the current state of the LowerMIGasPrices.competition page, created by House Democrats a year ago this summer.
It is now as easy to find as the medical records proving the maladies of those cured by greedy televangelists.
It is now as easy to find as the medical records proving the maladies of those cured by greedy televangelists.
All of the ‘gas price’ Web content has vanished, replaced by an unintentionally ironic “Fatal error” message on the page.
Except it wasn’t an “error.”
It was just a scam.
No “big oil” collusion was discovered, because it did not happen.
The names of those who signed that petition have been forgotten just as the Web page has. Or, perhaps like the easy marks who reliably fill the coffers of the phony preachers, those petition names have been saved in some database so as to beguile the gullible yet again.
Both the politician and TV faith healer prey upon our need to believe bad things can be fixed with the extraordinary interventions of supposedly extraordinary mortals.
The bogus cleric scams his flock by citing the authority of God, and the politician by slaying dragons that don’t exist.
Alas, exposing these frauds is as easy as it is pointless, because there’s always customers willing buy anything.
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