For sure—it's a very interesting question.
Two weeks ago I was at the meeting of the International Competition Network, which is the group that represents 100 antitrust agencies around the world, and I'm now the chair of the steering group. We have lots of chances to get together with our counterparts. Gas pricing is a big issue that we actually discuss among ourselves.
It's quite interesting that it's very important in some jurisdictions and not at all important in other jurisdictions. The Japanese don't have this as an issue, and I discussed it with my Japanese counterpart. He says this is not an issue that leads to any public concern. My British counterpart explained to me that it used to be a more significant issue, but it's not a matter that consumers raise with them particularly frequently now.
Where we do have common cause is with the U.S. There the Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction similar to ours. I was quoting a little bit earlier from the results of one of the studies that the FTC did in response to the spike in gas prices following Hurricane Katrina. I would say that the approach of the Federal Trade Commission is very similar to ours; its analysis is very similar to ours. It's concerned about jurisdiction over price gouging, which it does not believe is appropriate for an antitrust agency.
We've certainly exchanged notes. The head of the FTC offered to send me up the binder that she is developing to try to help explain what these changes in gas prices are all about. So we do have exchanges of information as well.