NYTimes.com Joe Nocera says of
Howell Raines' "Crude Reporting"
column: "Throughout his screed, he offers not a single data point, not one tiny sliver of evidence to support his view that the big bad oil companies are the reason we're paying $4 a gallon for gasoline. He's the
Oliver Stone of oil. Who knew? ... Raines is right when he says that most business writers believe that supply and demand is the reason oil prices have gone up. But he should be proud of us for that, not contemptuous. We believe it not because we're free-market ideologues (another one of his silly claims) but because it happens to be true."
Probably all the people at the New York Times who...
