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The Exchange
Issue 9.3: Cunning Lingle
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July 14, 2005
"[A]rtificial price controls could affect the supply of gas, because you can't force a refiner to stay here, or a supplier, and they can go somewhere else."
Lingle really understands the point of view of gasoline refiners and suppliers, and they really dig her, too. For the last five years, they've been donating tens of thousands of dollars to her gubernatorial campaign—more than $38,000 since I last checked. And the money's coming from across the industry: $8,900 from the Tesoro Hawai'i Political Action Committee (PAC); $5,300 from the Chevron PAC; $14,000 from the Maui Petroleum Co.; $2,000 from the Maui Oil Co.; $1,700 from a guy who owns a Shell station in Kahala and so forth.
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