Quote Originally Posted by Freakie_frog View Post
GREED! plain and simple. When they have the BALLS to stand before our congress begging for tax breaks cause they are loosing money but post 90 billion record PROFIT!!! Something is wrong. They wont build any more refineries to increase production because they know that we lazy American's are not about to give up our 15mpg SUV's for bikes or smaller compacts or walking. So they raise prices we keep buying and all the the while griping as we continue to swipe that card for pay at the pump.
Sure, CEOs make a disgusting amount of money for what they do but that's no different than many other industries.

We live in a capitalist economy, and while it sounds like GREED, its actually more like a REWARD for being the company that provides the fuel for which our economy runs on. Also, many oil companies are publically traded and some people's retirement funds are heavily invested in energy companies like Exxon Mobil. That's the livelyhood of your neighbors on the line when you say that we should "crack down" on high profits acheived by outstanding companies.

Moreover, when the government starts making it less profitable for companies to do business domestically (ie tax breaks, incentives, write-offs, etc), guess what? They move somewhere where they can make a profit. Poof! Now your job has moved to India! Still think that "cracking down" is a good idea?

The government needs to leave their hands out of it, and instead focus on things that it can have a positive impact on.