Gas Prices
The American Automobile
Association expects the average price of a gasoline to reach $4.50 a gallon by
Memorial Day. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday renewed his call for federal
regulators to stop Wall Street speculators from pushing up crude oil prices.
Bart Chilton, one member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission,
told Sanders he was drafting regulations to curtail "excessive speculative
trading." President Obama, Sanders said, should be more aggressive. He should
tell Gary Gensler, the chairman of the five-member commission, that "you've got
to do it and you've got to do it now."
