Comments on: Oil Industry Apologists Declare ‘We Like Oil,’ ‘Be Thankful,’ ‘Don’t Blame Oil’

By: dionor88

dionor88 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:07:22 +0000

Waiting for the slaves of public interest elected neoconism in this empire to develop courage would be like waiting for postmodernists of any stripe to learn “realism” in concepts. Don’t hold your breath.
What did these bloated corporate oil-guzzling thieves do to ‘earn” record profits? Nothing. What do they work hard at except skimming off the top?
If they were paid out of profits, then they could seell the product for a “decent” price and earn some extra instead of it being handed to them by a non-monitoring government of liars and brainwashing frauds.
As for the asinine argument about a marketplace controlling transportation, the players in that non-marketplace are the totalitarian public-interest imperial president of the U.S., tsaristic pseudo-religious oil shiek-absolutists, the international oil cartels and their thieving CEOs, the fellow on the corner who tries to run a gas station and you and I as rightless, forgotten victims.
No one could perhaps be stupid enough to call these ravening monsters “companies”–that would mean they’d have to pay their employees decently, pay themselves sparingly and expect to make the non-system work off “profits earned end-results created–wherein one had a choice.
These neo-fascosts are using the same argument used to keep ethical; normatives and those capable of writing about them off television–the same one they’re using about oil.
“If you don’t like what’s on, you can turn off the set.” Does that sound like achoice? To me it sounds like a choking censorship over human rights, talent and definitions being run by corwadly little ‘rats” afraid of competition.
To hell with any country whose people are so stupid as not to know this is a bureaucracy-ridden sick joke, and no form of capitalism at all. Next they’ll be telling us that there’s an election going on. But no one would lend credence to such a tyrannical absurdity. Or would they?

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:33:47 +0000

I watched the hearing on the web, and the only obscene thing about it was the arguments of the oil executives. To be fair, some were a little better than others; BP and Shell have made token contributions to the development of renewables, and they CLAIM to support cap-and-trade legislation (of course, talking out of the other side of their mouth you hear that they are also members of the American Petroleum Institute which is unequivocally AGAINST cap-and-trade). But the Exxon guy was definitely the most audacious of all of them; Big Oil gets billions of dollars in subsidies and tax incentives every year, and how much does he think renewables should get? NONE. “The market should decide” what energy sources we’ll use, according to him! It’s not surprising that he would argue such a position but it’s still the sort of disgusting hypocrisy that can make your blood boil.
Honestly, things don’t look good for the renewable energy bills in Congress right now, and I wish more Americans would wake up to what is going on and demand that our lawmakers find the guts to make the right decisions.

By: christopher wiwi

christopher wiwi — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:43:02 +0000

“These taxes would move us in the wrong direction by taking away income that could be reinvested in more oil and gas”.What is so wrong with this statement is saying in my opinon is a blackmailing of the gov`t by big oil.Why not use your record PROFITS instead of tax rebates and subsidies for the future of bio fuels and solar and wind energy.and the HOT AIR these guys expel from their BLOATED EGO`S.If they cut the price of gasoline in half people they still would have record profits and people would have extra cash to put into the economy, imagine that!!
It`s all about keeping the little guy down and squeezing the life out of us and our families.

By: LiberalVoter

LiberalVoter — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:27:36 +0000

It does seem we like oil. While riding my bike or while at the bus stop I see an overwhelming number of people driving large, low gas mileage vehicles with no passengers. Also, I have only seen 2 homes in my neighborhood (one being mine) that have solar PV and we are the only ones with solar hot water. I hope I don’t sound sanctimonious, that is not my intent. Until we all take the right steps, it will be “business” as usual.