So you have no problem with massive layoffs in the oil and gas industry?
All the periods in my lifetime of oil price spikes were a bad economy:
73-74, 79-80, 08-current
High oil prices fund Islamic terror also.
If the market calls for it, no.
so the public should subsidize the industry with high energy prices that also touch upon so many other consumer items?
How is that the oil industry AND Wall St Firms too get to be insulated from market conditions, and other markets/industries have to deal with them? Where in the Constitution does it say both of these elite industries always get the good times? And to add, do you think the top executives will be hurting? That they’ll tighten their salary/stock options/benefit belt?
Nobody likes to see good US jobs laid off because they are becoming so few. But as “free marketers” love to yell - leave the market alone.