Man, I am SOOOO tired of hearing about the Wicked Oil Companies. What a foolish notion. God forbid that a for profit company make a profit. No one complains that Coke or Disney make money hand over fist. And what's worse, is that those complaining about the problem are the same freaking a-holes who've been stopping us from increasing oil supply for the last 20 plus years.
Thomas Sowell has a great
column about this, and the hysteria on both the left and the right. Here's an excerpt:
Ironically, the people who are making the most noise about the high price of gasoline are the very people who have for years blocked every attempt to increase our own oil supply. They have opposed drilling for oil off the Atlantic coast, off the Pacific coast, or in Alaska. They have prevented the building of any new oil refineries anywhere for decades.
They have fought against the building of hydroelectric dams or nuclear power plants to generate electricity without the use of oil. They love to talk about their own pet "alternative energy sources," without the slightest attention to what these would cost in terms of money, jobs, or our national standard of living.
Even when one of their pet "alternative energy sources" -- windmills -- is proposed to be built near them, suddenly it is not right to spoil their view.
Politicians have indulged these spoiled brats for generations. Now, when the chickens come home to roost, they are screaming about high prices and Big Oil. That is world class chutzpa.
Amen to that!