Tomguy53 wrote:
Last year the average gasoline price was $3.58 per gallon — the highest since at least 1976 — so it’s little surprise that the big five oil companies — BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell — made a combined record profit of $137 billion in 2011.
If the big five oil companies made the majority of their profit from the sale of gasoline, this sentence would be relevant.

But they don't, they make it on the upstream side of the business from the drilling and sale of crude oil, the price of which they have little control over.

So this is just rabble-rousing the masses.



"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson