Steve58

Exxon Mobil: The Root of all Evil?

The politicians don't have a clue how the oil industry works. Nor do they want to know: recall the uproar when Dick Cheney met with industry representatives to craft policy? Instead, they like to score voter points by painting "big oil" as the "enemy", then rushing to the voter's rescue by punishing them. Government meddling in domestic oil companies for political purposes will only make us more dependent on foreign oil and drive up prices. Hindering an extremely efficient and competitive industry won't help us! When the government tries to run things, you have the cost effectiveness and efficiency of social security, medicare, IRS, pentagon, etc. Keep the government out of oil and let the professionals do their job and we will benefit. By the way, let's open up more domestic areas to drilling. Isn't that an extremely obvious way to help ourselves? What craziness that we scream about prices and foreign dependence, and instead of adding more domestic production we want to punish oil companies because prices are high...