I do one hell of a Dennis Miller impersonation

This isn’t about my company, but I have to get something out because I am so outraged and repulsed that I could burst. Exxon/Mobil recently announced the highest single quarter profits in history. And the news seems to be treating this information as a novelty. It may be just me, but I find it outrageous that gas prices reached such heights that many people had to change their lifestyles around this single factor, and the media just hahas and moves on? Heating oil is so expensive that I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that some elderly folks had to take out second mortgages to buy the fuel that will allow them to go on living through the winter ahead, and we’re okay with this?

To put the way they robbed us in perspective, if oil costs $60/barrel, and the price all of the sudden doubles, do you know how much each gallon has to increase in price to cover the difference? Two cents. How much did gas go up in your area? Here it was $.80-$.90. Now, I know there are other costs that go into processing oil to make gas, but those didn’t change, so the per barrel price is the main variable. So, if you have a product that you sell at a cost that is already inflated, and your cost goes up two cents, how much do you have to increase to cover? Four cents, eight, even ten?

Here’s what I say Exxon/Mobil should have to do with their new-found profits:

• Give some of this record profit to the government to cover the cost of the war that allowed these parasites to go on gouging the people.
• Rebate money to every person that had to buy oil for their homes after the increase to cover the difference.
• Give every soldier that went to the Mideast and the surviving members of the families of those killed in action free gas for life.
• Submit to the same regulation that utility companies do. They are a necessity item after all.
• Fund 50% of all research for renewable resource automobiles until they account for 75% of all cars on the road in America.

And let us not forget that the government tax on gas is 20% or more of the price you pay. That’s $.60 per gallon that you were paying for the last month going to taxes, and that’s not just Exxon/Mobil gas, that’s ALL GAS sold in the US. If they try to raise taxes any time in the next decade, we as a nation need to remind those morons just who they work for.

I’m sorry for getting off on a rant, but we cannot allow these opportunistic, parasitic, smug rapists to continue this. It’s a new fleet of jets they don’t need to them, but it is LIFE to us.

Now back to the regularly scheduled program…