Boy this is going to make a great Conservative ad come '08
Yeah, an ad that would backfire big time. I'd guess that most Americans hate the "big oil" companies and wouldn't care if Hillary! took those profits - all of those profits.
Nobody ever tells the American people how little Exxon Mobil makes on a gallon of gas, compared to how much the government takes from them in taxes. Nobody ever tells the public how much in taxes Exxon Mobil already pays. Exxon Mobil itself has estimated that it paid $20 BILLION more in U.S. taxes over the past 5 years ($60 BILLION) than its U.S. net income (about $40 billion). (Imagine the fuss if Joe Sixpack were taxed at a 60%-75% rate)
You don't hear these things on television, and need to read to the end of
newspaper articles to find these things out, if they even bother to mention it at all.