The price increases are at levels that are catastrophic for most people. And I can't predict that prices are going to go down. I wish I could.

The price increases are at levels that are catastrophic for most people. Everybody you talk to is saying that they have to cut down on other expenses just to put gasoline in their car or to pay their utility bills. And I can't predict that prices are going to go down. I wish I could.

The structure that made this possible is without shame. We're creating a new class of poor people who are energy-poor, while devastating prices allow powerful people to become even more powerful.

To some extent, it's expedited the price increases.

Prices are high, but without those price increases we would not have seen the 20 percent decrease in industrial gas demand that has occurred over the past five years. One by one, industrial gas users are either shutting down or switching to substitute fuels.

They don?t want to show the real high price. They take the prices off the pumps so that people don't know what the price is before they get into the station.