Companies make big profits...
So why are we villainizing companies that make money and employ a lot of people again?
Who are the 'villains' and who is to be villainized for this?
- Oil companies that do the searching, digging, drilling, extraction (in some of the most god-foresaken places on the globe sometimes), and refining of the oil?
- The Government (federal and local) who does not do any of that work but adds a tax to gasoline simply because they want a share of the profit in taxes that consumers, not the oil companies, have to pay?
- Iran, for occassionally threatening to close down the straight of Hormuz, causing the price of oil to sky-rocket? ISIS for seizing oil fields and using the money to fund its operations?
- OPEC who manipulates the cost of a barrell of oil as they see fit so they can make a killing financially?
- Obama, who declared before the 2008 election that he would like to see the cost of gasoline at about $5 a gallon? Obama who opposes fracking and using other US resources that could finally make us energy independent and preventing us from having to pay foreign nations that support terrorists?
- The politicians who sell themselves out as 'political prostitutes', accepting hundreds of millions of dollars in donations from these special interest groups in exchange for favors/influence that benefits the companies over what is best for the country / Americans?
WHY is it that only the CEOs of the oil industry get hammered now and then by people, but no one ever mentions any of these other people / groups?
We are brainwashed daily by anti-fossil fuel advocates who preach fossil fuel is evil, especially by Liberals...
- But they all want part of their share of the profiits in the form of taxes
- None of them can come up with a replacement for it that creates SO MUCH and SO MANY of the products we use on a daily basis (Do some research and be amazed and just how much of what you use everyday is made from it.) There IS NO replacement for it right now...
If you came up with a wonder product that EVERYONE in the world needed and used on a daily basis...would YOU simply give it away or would you create a business and try to make as much profit as possible? If people are honest they would respond by saying they would try to make as much money as possible....
They pollute the environment? The EPA just F*-ED UP the environment nearly 10 (TEN) TIMES what the Gulf oil Spill did a few years ago by completely JACKING UP / FAILING HORRIBLY to conduct a simple clean up of a now-unused gold mine. The major river was YELLOW, so completely contaminated. This river affect THOUSANDS of bodies of water, miles, and citizens downstream. The environment will be devastated foir DECADES as the setiment was washed down stream for hundreds of miles and settles at the bottom...which means the only wat to get it out is to dredge ALL of that up...which is impossible. So the Obama administration just created a far worse disaster and negative impact on our environment in 1 DAY that the oile industry probably does in (a) year(s) (or more). The EPA, btw, is trying to massively downplay this event and walk away from it without executing a clean-up of their mess equal to what they demanded of the oil company down in the gulf.
-- So WHY are we trying to single out and demonize oil company CEOs again?