Dianne Feinstein, California’s senior senator charged that California’s record gasoline prices might be the “results of an illegal short squeeze” by the handful of companies that refine gas in the area. He has called on the Federal Trade Commission to take action. In a letter to the FTC, Feinstein cited news reports that said Tesoro Corporation, a refinery in the South Bay area that went down for maintenance, was take advantage of by other gas suppliers through an ‘illegal collusion’ abusing the use of market power.
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