what's wrong with the oil companies?
The oil companies?
Nothing is wrong with the oil companies.
They get paid money for pumping out oil from the ground, help subsidize Islamofascist states like Saudi Arabia, drain American money overseas, get an oil depletion allowance, manipulate the international markets, ship crude and refined material from one country to another to confuse nations and consumers, collaborate with an international cartel dedicated to screwing America, but otherwise they are fine and dandy.
I can't move my car or heat my house without them - they know it and love it and want to keep it that way.
Oil companies are great!!!!
Well, for starters, they've been shutting down refineries for years and then claim limited capacity and raise prices.
Well, the oil companies have conspired with the government to not let them drill in 60% of the US. There is also a secret agreement to stop building refineries. That way all the companies have to do is buy oil from the arabs and resell it here. No work, lots of money because it keeps prices high.
In exchange for not allowing them to drill, the oil companies have agreed to let the government tax the heck out of these criminal profits. That way, oil people make more money with less effort, the government gets more tax monies from consumers (the real payers of corporate taxes).
Great thing about this for the feds is that they can claim they aren't raising our taxes.