[Naptowne]

Do you have any sources or a time frame for your statements? The government makes money off gasoline taxes that are paid by the American people, not Exxon. The oil companies or more of a drain on the American economy than an asset because they drive up the costs for almost every other business in the country.

[ConTex]

Do you have any sources or a time frame for your statements? The government makes money off gasoline taxes that are paid by the American people, not Exxon. The oil companies or more of a drain on the American economy than an asset because they drive up the costs for almost every other business in the country. Needs to be repeated.

[lepton]

The oil companies or more of a drain on the American economy than an asset because they drive up the costs for almost every other business in the country.

Ummm. They drive down costs. ...Otherwise we'd be doing those things that cost us less.

...Or is there some mandated program that requires you to buy gas for the heck of it?

[Young Scholar]

The oil companies or more of a drain on the American economy than an asset because they drive up the costs for almost every other business in the country.

Definitely. Let's nationalize them, and make their executives switch to a job where they do an honest day's work on an oil rig or something for the first time in their lives. And if they refuse they can give back all their bonuses since 2000, when they first started gouging American consumers.