Keep threatning your child they will be punished for bad behavior is meaningless without action. The child soon realizes they can ignore the threat. We see the same thing with our lousy congress folks call oil barons on the carpet. All we get are insults to our intelligence.
Considering that from the price meltdown in 98-99 as the result of an erroneous EIA report which anticipated a worldwide glut of oil (somehow they forgot Asia), the stripper wells which were plugged, the obstruction of drilling at every turn by Federal, state agencies and legislatures, I'd say the congress investigating the "oil barons" is about like a group of muggers investigating why the victim wasn't carrying enough money to buy them all a steak dinner and drinks afterward.
Government is the problem, not the solution.
How come the magnanimous Congress hasn't cut their chunk of the pie? They took in a bunch on fuel taxes without ever risking a dime of their or their stockholders' money.
Yeah, those naughty oil companies! How dare XOM pay $100+ billion a year in taxes worldwide, employ tens of thousands of people in high-paying skilled labor, wrest raw materials from below miles of solid rock, and convert them into products that provide manifest conveniences to our comfortable, cushy lives!!
They should be ashamed of themselves!!