[Small-L]

Bill O'Reilly, Grassley, and most in Congress need to go take Economics 101 again and quit using the public's ignorance about free market economy to pander for votes.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Microsoft's profit for the same quarter was about 25 percent of sales. Let's rip em !

[Hendrix]

O'Reilly is an idiot. He really shows that he either does not know anything about economics or he just lies to be popular with his listeners who do not know anything about economics. Either one makes him an idiot.

[RetiredArmy]

and quit using the public's ignorance about free market economy to pander for votes.

But this is EXACTLY WHAT THE SO-CALLED PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, BETTER KNOWN AS GOVERNMENT INDOCTRONATION CETERS IN MY OPINION WANT!!! To DUMB America down, to dumb Americans into voting for THEM. What else do you expect from a 30-second sound bite, reality TV, go to the movies, hang at the mall, talk on the cell phone while driving, whine at everything, blame Bush, conservatives, religion, for EVERY thing wrong in their lives. This is EXACTLY what the socialist and communist democrats want, AND SADLY, ARE GETTING!

[coconutt2000]

The high oil prices are indicative of the large increase in commodity traders and the funds available to them. Many of these individuals and groups don't ever take possession of the oil they trade. They just drive up the prices. The oil companies are not setting the prices high, nor are they manipulating the market. The manipulation is occurring in the commodity futures, and it is being perpetrated by the same market forces that inflate prices of many of our stocks.

If there's anything to be done about oil prices, it might help to do something to chase the speculators out of the oil futures market. Punishing the oil companies for something outside of their control would be counter productive.

[Coldwater Creek]

What about all of those years that the price of crude was below 15.00 and it took 20.00 for the oil companies to make a profit at all???????? The petro companies are responsible to their stockholders to make money period.

[Old Seadog]

Can someone explain why, when the price of crude oil goes up per barrel, the price at the pump goes up immediatly. But when the price of crude goes down, it takes weeks to see a price change at the pumps?
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[Always Right]

If Oil is such a great investment, why not just invest in it? Why steal the profits? The fact is, oil has not been the greatest investment over the past years.

[Born Conservative]