Quote Originally Posted by mkemse View Post
2nd: Yes, The Governement can Force the Oil Companies to do something, they can hitthem where it hurts, their Profits, they can Take Away their Yearly Subsidies and hit them with a Windfall Profits Tax, that might "Motivate" them to use thier profits for exploration, develop ect
and use the Tax thier Winfall Profits to reinburse Americans

3rd: The Current GWB, he may have lost alot in his oil investments, but I hardly see either The Current GWB or Sr. struggling to buy gas. Food, Medication ect for themselves or their families

Also, When Clinton Left Office in 2001, Oil was $32.19 cents a Barrel, it is not $125+, that is a 450% price increase in 7 years, a Commidities Broker was on CNN the other night and said in his 35 years of trading he has neverseem any comodity go up 450% in 7 years, it is un heard of, and i can notthink of anything we use daily that hasgone up 450% in 7 years??

19.5 BILLION in profits for most Oil Companies in 4 months is beyond obscence, that translate to about $3.80 a gallon. they say oil costs them more, fine if it costs them more how do they explain the largest quartly profits over 2 years of ANY corportation on earth, they pay more for oil, sure, but they also profit by Billions every quarter, why????
It's called supply and demand. Limited and "dwindling" supply vs yearly increases to demand. It's not the oil companies' fault that more people use oil every year than the year before.

And "can" does not translate to "have the right to."

I'm done arguing with you.