Gouging

From AT:

As government elites gain greater money and power from exploiting our ignorance, they posture again about taxpayers and pump prices.  But they really don't care about taxpayers and pump prices at all.  Nothing in their behavior over energy policy leads to that conclusion.  Rather than sticking up for taxpayers and consumers, the biggest pigs at the trough are looking for another way to stick it to taxpayers and consumers.  In classic Atlas Shrugged fashion, the know-nothings mooching off the productivity and ingenuity of capitalists take the public stage to throw sand in the gears of a vital American output engine.  The gouging continues.