Stephen Colbert Versus High Gas Prices

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This is a couple years old, but we're posting it for two reasons: one, it's Stephen Colbert interviewing his daughter, demonically possessed by Getty Oil. It's adorable and worth a chuckle.Two, the point the segment makes is as pertinent as ever: if gas stations can lower their prics by thirty cents and find business and profit booming, exactly why aren't gas prices thirty cents lower per gallon? Oh wait... greed. Right.

This is a couple years old, but we’re posting it for two reasons: one, it’s Stephen Colbert interviewing his daughter, demonically possessed by Getty Oil. It’s adorable and worth a chuckle.Two, the point the segment makes is as pertinent as ever: if gas stations can lower their prics by thirty cents and find business and profit booming, exactly why aren’t gas prices thirty cents lower per gallon? Oh wait… greed. Right.

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