[Yorlik803]

You know that...and I may have known that{ Not}
But you take Joe six pack. They see paying 2.89 a Gal then they see some guy getting 400 Million....
It is hard to argue the case for capitalism when you spend for more for gas than food.
The Goverment cant do anything but make it worse.
And the bummer is that we cant blame OPEC...they can ship it, but we dont have the refineries do make gas.And since it takes, what, ten years to build one, there is no quick fix.
There are fixes, like doing away with special gas for different parts of the country, but I would sooner win a date with Jolene Blalock that see the bunny huggers allow that. And maybe do away with the Fed gas tax. HAHAHahahah sorry

[Cobra64]

You're right. The bunny lovers have paralized building new refineries as well as screwing up production and distribution with the 17 boutique blends. No drilling. In other enrgy news, no nuke plants, no wind farms, regulation on coal mining.

Finally, the Feds Taxed (read: conficated) more than TWICE what the oil industry earned in profits from 1977-2003. Last year the oil industry earned 9.5% return on revenues. Pharmaceuticals were double that.