There are also huge ongoing tax breaks given to big oil.

They don't open refineries because they didn't get the funding from the government to make it profitable.

Oil refined into petroleum may be a small part of what crude is used for but it is still be handed to us under false pretenses.

We all have points of view and can pull statistics to support ourselves, that I would say is a given.

What I am saying is that this is deliberate. They knew it was coming, so did some of us, but the capitalized on it. That in and of itself is no big deal, Welcome to America, but the way they not only did it but are doing it to us now, rankles me.