Big problem: there have been a few cases of refinery capacity being manipulated for profit. Yet Democrats want to seize on such examples to as proof that the larger part of the run up in prices is because of dirty capitalists rather than anything fundamental to the market. Part of the bad faith in markets downstream from Enron, and from Exxon being more concerned with propaganda than truth. Too many Democrats don't trust that business is honest about anything anymore, especially in where it finds its profits. Therefore profit itself is taken as evidence of crime.

This is idiotic. But it's what happens when businesses have too often been too dishonest, and an opposing party has few in it who deeply understand business or economics. (And I'm a Democrat saying this.)