[Rte66]

The OP wrote:
Remember a few years ago when gas was selling for 80 cents/gal? The oil companies AND the retailers were making a profit while taxes were 40 cents on a gallon!

And you replied:

"I remember. That was when oil companies were going bankrupt or seeking mergers to survive.

That was when the companies in Alaska were producing oil at a net loss, but to shut the wells in would have killed them.

That was when there weren't any profits and only losses, but armchair economists like you never noticed.

You were still bitching that gasoline was 27 cents a gallon like it was when you were a kid."

And I say:

Thank you!

[Sam Gamgee]

Funny that no one was crying for Washington to send some money to help oil companies stop bleeding losses. Oil companies endured a decade of losses then started finally making good then great profits and all of a sudden we are on them like rats, decrying their greed.