IT MAY NOT COME TO MUCH, BUT AT LEAST SOMEONE IS WANTING TO ASK TOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT GAS PRICES

Just read on the Mississippi-based political blog Magnolia Politics that State Representative Jamie Franks (D - Mooreville), who chairs the House Select Committee on Gasoline Prices and Alternative Fuels, is scheduling hearings throughout the state to investigate why gas prices seem to be going up almost daily.

He told the Tupelo-based North Mississippi Daily Journal, "With our powers to investigate and to subpoena and with the attorney general's prosecutorial powers, hopefully we can have an impact. A lot of people said there was nothing that can be done about big tobacco companies. You see what happened to them."

Joe doesn't seem to think that anything can be done on the state level. I tend to agree, but at least they are willing to try to put some heat on the oil companies to explain themselves. Good luck.