in this case, it appears that there s some evidence that we want them to investigate. the fact while they said they were down, emissions were still coming out of some of these facilities which would lead you to believe they were actually producing supply. we contacted the western states petroleum association to get their response to this, to the mcclatchey report and this call for an investigation. they told us the department of justice elects to investigate gas markets on the west coast. we re confident the investigation will reach the same conclusion dozens of other investigations over the past two decades have reached that gasoline and diesel prices on the west coast are determined principally by supply and demand. they also said the author of the report who i cited in my introduction, he s not an expert in the oil industry and clearly
full week before it reported to have come back online. really? similarly, chevron s richmond refinery was reported down for maintenance for two weeks in may, but a missions data suggests the refinery never ceased operation. shell s refinery in martinez, they were supposedly offline not making anything. gas prices had to go up, but at least one report concludes actually they were up and running. what, they just didn t want to say so? everybody knows how supply and demand works. but in this case, if supply and demand don t explain what was going on here, that s a scandal that had a huge economic impact. were the companies lying about this just to boost prices up and pocket the difference? does this happen all over the country? what s going on here? and what tools do we have to environmental documents from a point in thyme when those refineries were supposedly offline. down for maintenance work. right? here s out mcclatchey explains. at a time in may, reported down for maintenance for two
facilities which would lead you to believe they were actually producing supply. we contacted the western states petroleum association to get their response to this, to the mcclatchey report and this call for an investigation. they told us the department of justice elects to investigate gas markets on the west coast. we re confident the investigation will reach the same conclusion dozens of other investigations over the past two decades have reached that gasoline and diesel prices on the west coast are determined principally by supply and demand. they also said the author of the report who i cited in my introduction, he s not an expert in the oil industry and clearly does not understand refinery operations. his report contains many suspicions and theories but does not prove anything. let me get your response to the remark from the western states petroleum association. there s a lot to cover there. let me just say this. there s a new law on the books of the last few years that basica
know, i like her personally. i know her a little bit and i like her personally but i will say she s always been known as a dealmaker. it would be interesting to see what those returns say but i really believe that the whole clamor for mitt romney s tax returns has died down. people are getting tired of it. they re looking at all of the things that our president has not released and i think frankly that s starting to come to the floor and they re saying wait a minute, we better not keep pushing this tax return stuff because all of a sudden, the president will have to release things that he doesn t want to release and that will be devastating to him in my opinion. yeah, the mcclatchey newspapers did a survey and apparently 17 of the 535 members of congress released their tax returns so if they re calling, hey, let s all have those guys release them, they don t do it. they don t practice what they preach. but you do, donald. and that s why you re joining us every monday. thank you very
mcqueary also said he reported what he saw to head coach joe paterno. as for coach sandusky, he faces more than 50 charges related to alleged attacks on children over a period of 15 years. marine sergeant dakota meyer says he never considered himself a hero has said that from the beginning. first living marine in decades to receive the medal of honor is finding himself of having to defend his story. the marine corps reported and president obama acknowledged that in 2009 sergeant meyer saved the lives of 36 people during ambush in afghanistan. ignoring orders and driving his humvee into enemy fire not once but five times facing almost certain death. but earlier this week a mcclatchey newspaper report and the reporters were there with him at the time, claim that the military provided an inflated version of events to the obama administration. the marines deny it. and yesterday the white house said it thoroughly vetted marine corps documents before