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Originally Posted by ElderScroller27

Will every Oil Executive who makes a Hundred Billion Dollars of unfair profit every month, please raise your right hand.





I saw this picture on a story about Oil executives defending their profits before congress and I could not resist....

since they already flamed you for your lack of being able to spell, I'm just going to go ahead and flame you for your wording of "unfair profit". What profit is unfair? They provide a product which you buy. If you dont like it, than go buy an ethanol or electric car, and quit your bitching.
Besides, if you want to talk about "unfair profiting", you need to look at the source.. OPEC and the US government. OPEC sets the per barrel rate, not exxon. Exxon and other companies make a pretty much standard 8% on a gallon of gas. OPEC makes hundreds of % on it. The US government makes on average about 32 cents i beleive for every 8 cents the gas company does. Then you add on the state taxes. In a state like california, they equal to around $.90 cents per gallon tax. Who is really gouging you??

Go to a place like the brittish isles where they pay by the litre, and are taxed so heavily on it by the government you would have to be a billionaire to afford an SUV.


And within those "obscene" profits that the dems like to tout, the oil companies spend billions on new exploration, drilling, and research. The government does nothing but take the $$