Read the rest…<\/a> It’s well worth your Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That’s what Mackubin Thomas Owens says in an OpEd piece in today’s Wall Street Journal. Gasoline prices are through the roof and Americans are angry. Someone must be to blame and the obvious villain is “Big Oil” with its alleged ability to gouge consumers and achieve unconscionable, “windfall” profits. 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