Can Uncle Sam Cut Gas Costs?  Nearly two dozen governors asked
Congress to hold hearings and investigate the recent surge in
gasoline prices. The Connecticut congressional delegation
requested the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to
investigate. Congress held hearings and legislators proposed
price gouging legislation. The House voted to give the
government permission to sue OPEC over its production quotas,
arguing that the cartel uses them to set the price of oil.  But
with gas prices at record highs, is there anything that the
government can do to help lower the cost of gasoline?  The ABC
News Business Unit spoke with several energy economists and
analysts and asked them to comment on proposals often mentioned.
What if the government were to standardize the types of gasoline
refined in the United States?  Michelle Foss, chief energy
economist at the bureau of Economic Geology at the University of
Texas in Austin, said this could lower prices. "If everyone had
the same rules in place, it would lower t