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McCain Quote: "I am very angry, frankly, at the oil companies not only because of the obscene profits they've made but at their failure to invest in alternate energy to help us eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. They're making huge profits and that happens, but not to say, 'We're in this so we can over time eliminate America's dependence on foreign oil,' I think is an abrogation of their responsibilities as citizens."

What ever happened to the Good Ol' Days when everybody just assumed the oil companies were buying up competing technology and squashing innovation in order to maintain their energy monopoly? You know, the old technology exists to produce a car that gets 100 MPG, but the oil companies are preventing it from coming to the market trope, beloved of scam marketers of magnets and fuel filters everywhere.

It is BS, of course. But at least it is BS that recognizes that the oil business has an interest in promoting the oil business, and not competing technologies. This notion that the oil companies should be working diligently to put themselves out of business is just stupid.

You know, the old technology exists to produce a car that gets 100 MPG, but the oil companies are preventing it from coming to the market trope,

The technology exists to produce a car that gets 62.8mpg highway, but it's not the oil companies preventing it - it's the Environmental Protection Agency. You see, it's a diesel, and burning double the gasoline is somehow less damaging to the "environment" than burning diesel fuel.

This notion that the oil companies should be working diligently to put themselves out of business is just stupid.

It is stupid beyond belief. It is a page straight out of the communist play book. Not to mention that most of the oil companies are foreign owned so invoking their sense of patriotism is idiotic.