Last week, I read an article about how the big three oil companies all came under fire for their lack of action in the “climate battle”. It caught my attention because the night before I read the article, I noticed the prices at the local gas stations had gone up to over $3 a gallon! That was like a 30-cent jump in just a couple of days! When I first saw the higher prices, I thought maybe we were seeing the remnants of the effects of that cyber-attack on the Colonial pipeline or maybe the gas stations were just raising prices in anticipation of Memorial Day weekend. But then my cynical brain got to thinking otherwise. I began to wonder if the gas prices have anything to do with Exxon, Chevron, and Shell getting “mud on their face”, as Mr. Mercury so eloquently put it. I t just seems a little more than coincidence that these big oil companies got “bullied” one day all over the media and the next day the prices at the pump drastically incr...