Monday, March 31, 2008
Big Oil
It's that time of year again. Time for our holier-than-thou politicians in Washington DC to put on their dog and pony show by grilling oil company executives about the high price of oil and gas products and their "record" profits. Doesn't Congress have anything better to do than constantly harass businesses about their businesses? Oh yeah. I forgot about their constant meddling in steroid use in Major League Baseball. Yuch!
These pandering politicians love to spotlight big oil executives because they are so easy to demonize considering their products are always at center stage. Everyone needs oil or gas and nobody likes paying higher prices for it. And most everyone in this country has been brainwashed into believing that it's all the fault of oil companies when prices continue to go up. And also to believe that Congress has any part whatsoever in determining the price of anything on the open market.
So Congress gets out their best clothes and polishes up their best rants and raves to impress the people making them think they really care about them and feeling their pain at the pumps and, well, we're damn sure going to do something about these outrageous record profits. Can you say "windfall profits tax"?
Sickening! Disgusting! A complete waste of time. And par for the course for Congress.
Will we ever get responsible, effective government? Will the elected lunatics ever get tired of putting on their show and making grandiose claims and accusations about things which they know very little about and in which government has no business? Doubtful but I can hope.
Name one other business that Congress investigates routinely trying to find some kind of wrongdoing. I could maybe cut them some slack if this was a once in a lifetime event and they were trying to learn more about how this market works. But this has become a regular occurrence and all I see coming out of these investigations is grandstanding and partisan speeches by people in authority that should know much better. And it generates a lot of angry attitudes towards the oil companies.
And let's face it, we all need the products that the oil companies produce. We need it desperately. It just doesn't make sense to alienate the very folks who are supplying a product that everyone wants and needs just to try to earn a few brownie points with the uninformed electorate.
Leave Big Oil alone. Clean up your own yard first and stick to your constitutional business. And quit playing politics on America's dime.
OH
These pandering politicians love to spotlight big oil executives because they are so easy to demonize considering their products are always at center stage. Everyone needs oil or gas and nobody likes paying higher prices for it. And most everyone in this country has been brainwashed into believing that it's all the fault of oil companies when prices continue to go up. And also to believe that Congress has any part whatsoever in determining the price of anything on the open market.
So Congress gets out their best clothes and polishes up their best rants and raves to impress the people making them think they really care about them and feeling their pain at the pumps and, well, we're damn sure going to do something about these outrageous record profits. Can you say "windfall profits tax"?
Sickening! Disgusting! A complete waste of time. And par for the course for Congress.
Will we ever get responsible, effective government? Will the elected lunatics ever get tired of putting on their show and making grandiose claims and accusations about things which they know very little about and in which government has no business? Doubtful but I can hope.
Name one other business that Congress investigates routinely trying to find some kind of wrongdoing. I could maybe cut them some slack if this was a once in a lifetime event and they were trying to learn more about how this market works. But this has become a regular occurrence and all I see coming out of these investigations is grandstanding and partisan speeches by people in authority that should know much better. And it generates a lot of angry attitudes towards the oil companies.
And let's face it, we all need the products that the oil companies produce. We need it desperately. It just doesn't make sense to alienate the very folks who are supplying a product that everyone wants and needs just to try to earn a few brownie points with the uninformed electorate.
Leave Big Oil alone. Clean up your own yard first and stick to your constitutional business. And quit playing politics on America's dime.
OH
# posted by OH @ 1:12 PM 
