"Salvation Is At Hand" - cry the Oil Barons!

Just the other day, we were discussing why the Oil Barons
are going to raise gas prices on Labour Day. I was hoping
that for once we'd be told: "It's Labour Day folks! We're
jacking up the oil prices like we do every Labour Day. Get
used to it!"

We were hoping it would not be the usual excuses: refinery
"fires", refinery "explosions", fear of war in the mid
east, etc. Then, we realized that Hurricane Katrina is the
perfect excuse!

The oil boys can claim they had to shut down oil rigs or
that their rigs were damaged and they can do the annual
price gouging! Katerina does not even have to damage
anything; she is simply the best current excuse!