Oil companies do not make as much as you would think. Their profits are less than those in many other industries, including tech businesses such as Apple. When you account for the cost of finding the oil, the cost of the regulations and taxes in involved, the cost of refining and making all the different blends required by the various whacko environmental rules, and then add in the obscene state and federal taxes on a gallon of gas, you will see that the real profiteers are the greedy jerks in government.
i think at best oil companies make $.05 per gallon and they do all the exploring drilling and refining. government makes over $.30 per gallon and they do NOTHING except make it more difficult fot oil companies.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT screwing up everything it touches for the past 50 years.