Shouldn’t we be doing something to regulate the profiteering by the oil companies? I’m all for a free-market, capitalist system (I’m a republican at heart), but to allow these greedy bums to make billions in profit each quarter and then to claim that they’re just passing the increase along to the consumer is BS. [...]
Would it be better to see Exxon’s profits go through the roof or send that money to Saudi Arabia and Iran?
I don’t think gas is all that expensive. It’s just a price we pay attention to and it fluctuates more than other expenses. But it really bothers me that companies like Exxon make greater profits when they have to pay more for oil.
The way NAFTA is set up,
the highest bid buys the oil
no matter what country
McCain likes the free trade
the way it is, and doesn’t want
any changes to it
So if the Saudis out-bid Exxon/Mobile,
we will still pay roughly the same high
prices for gasoline
only it will be the Saudis selling us
what is supposed to be our own oil
Miss Kitty: you seriously think there are no oil wells in Alaska???? You’ve never heard of the North slope, Valdez, the Exxon oil spill, or the Alaskan pipeline?