Highway Robbery: When are we going to work up the
balls to say, “ENOUGH”?
These oil companies are NOT Robin Hoods.
Hoods, yes, but robbing, not Robin.
"I was out driving/just a taking it slow
Looked at my tank/ it was reading low
Pulled in a Exxon station/out on Highway One
Held up without a gun
Held up without a gun"
Springsteen's song could not be more true today.
Big Oil is once again riding high oil prices to large profits (see below) while American
consumers get stuck with a $2.7 billion gasoline bill in the first quarter of 2010
due to higher oil prices.
But the problems with oil go beyond these companies' profits. Rising oil prices also add more
filthy lucre to the coffers of hostile regimes, including Iran.
Meanwhile, the Gulf of Mexico is suffering a huge oil spill while taxpayers spend
billions of dollars paying for tax loopholes for Big Oil.
And Big Oil spends record amounts of money to pressure Congress to cement these loopholes
in place and defeat clean energy legislation. Adding injury to insult, big oil opposes energy
and global warming legislation that would reduce our reliance on oil.
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