Why don’t you like oil companies? Is your occupation one that has to deal with a foreign cartel that rigs the game? Without Big Oil and the countless smaller independents, you would be riding around on a horse and buggy with a windmill in your backyard.
re: “Why don’t you like oil companies?”
Allow me to qualify what was in my mind when I said, “I am no big fan of oil companies”.
First, my main point was that putting a fee on a barrel of oil is simply a tax on the consumer. That would be true no matter what type of business it is whether oil, or TV’s, or whatever. That is what I was outraged about.
When I said “I am no big fan of oil companies” I should have said, “Whether one likes oil companies or not . . .” putting a fee per barrel on them only makes it hard on average Americans. I appreciate the political crap oil companies, as well as business in general, have to deal with in just trying to make a profit to stay in business.
I appreciate the innovations and all the products and influence oil companies have on improving our way of life. My grandfather was a “roust-about” for Texaco in Oklahoma and loved going around with him maintaining oil wells in rural Oklahoma.
I apologize for any perceived dissing of oil companies. Hope that helps.