Thank you for you editorial stating that “Sen. Susan Collins got her answer about the Labor Day spike in gasoline prices. Remarkably it’s exactly the same answer that the industry has already rolled out … We’re not satisfied.” (Sept. 23).

Before the reign of the first President Bush, gasoline prices were regulated. Any rise in price had to be justified by a rise in costs. For Labor Day, the cost of production and the cost of delivery were not changed. The more than 25 cent per gallon increase in price was an unearned income of a few billion dollars to members of the Bush oil cartel. The same cabal that is to benefit from the Bush tax break. The same junto that is investing this unearned income in plants in Mexico, India and Bangladesh to attract jobs away from America.

Senator Collins has done America a great service by asking the question.

With the Sun-Journal, I hope she will continue to press for an answer to where and why the unearned money was taken from the unemployed masses to enrich the oiligarchy.

Bill Ellis, Rangeley

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