Utah Gas Prices - Where have all the talking heads gone?

Monday, December 8th, 2008

A few months ago, I wrote that Governor Huntsman’s “monitoring” of gas prices was just political BS, and that purposely encouraging a misunderstanding of basic economics for political gain was a bad idea.
Well, it turns out I was wrong: just the threat of State oversight made Utah gas vendors stop being greedy, and now Utah [...]

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Utah to Monitor Gas Prices

Friday, August 15th, 2008

The Deseret News is reporting that Governor Huntsman has ordered the Utah State Department of Commerce to monitor gas prices.
That’s just politics as usual, but I’m alarmed by how many people here in “conservative” Utah are commenting that they want the government to step in and “do something” rather than just “monitor”. It’s like we’re [...]

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