In a Good Mood
Oct 25th, 2008 by wintercow20
That’s what oil companies must be in. Just look! Oil prices were over $140 a barrel as recently as July, and as I write prices are down to $64 per barrel.
Why doesn’t Congress haul the energy company CEOs to demand an explanation for their newfound altruism? Or heck, if they are doing this to make a buck, why don’t we haul them before Congress to demand an “excess profits” tax when prices are plummeting? Clearly, the energy companies are being 54% more generous to Americans today than they were in July … how nice of them.
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Gas prices are WAY down in the last few weeks. What happened, did ‘big oil’ have an epiphany in the last month and all of a sudden decide to become less ‘greedy?!’
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It smells like a damn fish market in here, phew
You’re right – they must have had an epiphany to become so altruistic so soon!