This has been my expectation for years. With any
product that we CHOOSE to use indiscriminately and
without regard to supply, the first solution
recommended is always big government control - as if
that would work. Okay, lets try it. Send Hillary out
there to find the next oil discovery.
rick - geophysicist in oil and gas exploration
--- don <don@napanet.net> wrote:
> I wouldn't say they need to be charities, but maybe
> nationalized would be
> one way to deal with their power to screw us all-
> not just with the
> prices/profits, but their use of it to lobby
> governments, to hire
> mercenaries in other countries to get oil, and to
> finance public opinion
> manipulating think tanks here in the US.
>
>
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Friday, February 2, 2007; Page D01
>
> It was a hard act to follow, but
>
<http://financial.washingtonpost.com/custom/wpost/html-qcn.asp?dispnav=business&mwpage=qcn&symb=XOM&nav=el>Exxon
>
> Mobil has managed quite an encore.
>
> After ringing up the biggest annual profit figure in
> U.S. corporate history
> in 2005, Exxon Mobil yesterday announced that it
> topped that number in
> 2006. Riding the wave of high crude oil and gasoline
> prices, the company
> reported a profit of $39.5 billion, up 9 percent
> from the year before.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 06:13 PM 09/22/2007, David Breneman wrote:
>
> >--- RampantNM@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > Because they don't HAVE to. Oil companies are
> profit making mother
> > > fu....Ah... I mean ,,,enterprises.
> >
> >I suppose you believe they should operate as
> charities?
> >
> >
> >David Breneman david_breneman@yahoo.com
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