[BatGuano]

My brain is going to explode if I see or hear that stupid reference “thanks to the two oilmen in the White House” again. It is a stupid attempt to infer a conspiracy among “oilmen, big oil, the evil oil companies that make obscene profits, etc. ad nauseum” and the President and Vice President of the United States of America. The damn liberals lap it up, and never stop to think how ridiculous they sound. Now THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, Ms. Pelousey, adds her 2 cents. Any time, during a conversation about the energy crisis, someone tries to make a point by mentioning big oil and the President, I immediately leave. I am not going to waste my good hearing listening to babble BS.

[frankiep]

Every time the topic of gas prices comes up and some idiot starts blaming the “big oil companies” I ask them if they think that the people running the oil companies throughout the world are stupid. They always answer with an emphatic “NO, they are smart and evil for taking advantage of us by manipulating the prices”. I reply by asking them that if they are as smart and devious as you claim they, then why have they not figured out how to “manipulate” the prices to take advantage of us until today, 2008? This is invariably met with either a blank stare, or a quick change of subject (usually an attack on something about Bush).