Sure. They are the only people who get to drive cars or heat their homes with #2 or get to fly in airplanes or have anything that might be delivered by rail. Just the evil greedy "corperate" ceo's are the only people to get to drive to the grocery store, to work or to church. No one else has any use for petroleum products. And unless you have some magic way of sticking a straw 20K feet into the earth, pulling up a thick, gooey substance and a magic wand to turn it into a clean, usable product they will continue to do so. Try pulling a 200 car string down a track with mules. I'll loan you the shovel to clean up after them. Besides, the government needs the 60% of the dollars that ring up at the pump. Otherwise they'll have to borrow it from China or somewhere. Wouldn't want that to happen, do we?