Yea. $200 return for gouging us senseless for over a year is NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Oil needs to pay up or else.
Explain this to me. In 2008 price for oil was $163 a barrel. Oil industry was subsidized $21 billion dollars and we were paying $3.47 a gallon for gas. Now oil is $120 a barrel and we are still subsidizing the oil industry in the billions per year and gas prices in California is up to $10 a gallon average nation wide $7 and up. Even when oil was $40 a barrel we were paying $3.65 a gallon for gas because of subsides. So can you explain what is going on here? Where is all that subsidized money going this round?
This is pure and simple price gouging at its best. Profiteering, exploitation, extortion, racketeering fraud and criminal, unethical, immoral business practices at the very least. Are you telling me there are no laws on the books that can stop this? Are you telling me that this is legal and O.K.? What the hell are we paying our representatives to do? The American taxpayer is subsidizing the oil companies with tax dollars from $10-$52 billion dollars a year.
Oil has us over a barrel and our government and elected officials have rolled over and played dead again. Playing dead is what they seem to do best. The way we fix this gas gouging nonsense is not by a 16 cent a gallon gas tax holiday or a piss ass $200 rebate out of taxpayer’s money. Disgusting. Unbelievable. Why are we enabling the oil industry by absorbing their reckless, obscene price gouging with taxpayer money? This is what we should be doing. Tell the oil companies via the lobby groups that they have exactly 30 days to get gas prices down to $4 a gallon or else. And the or else is in 30 days subsides end. NO Ifs, ands, or butts. Make the oil industry refund the consumers for their ill-gotten gains. Period.
And we need to also pass an emergency windfall profit tax on oil companies. That goes into effect 60 days from now as well. Money talks and shit walks. We are holding all the cards and that’s the deal. One month. $4 a gallon or else.
OMG UK under Johnson did this already. Are they really better than us? Our Congress, this administration is failing us above and beyond and we are sick and tired of the nonsense. We know what to do. We know what needs doings and Congress and leadership is blaming everything on Putin, Covid, war in Ukraine, supply and demand everything but the truth. Truth is this country is owned and operated by a bunch of money grubbing, war mongering, greedy, scum lords. We know we could pass safe and sane laws in a minute to restore peace and harmony. Congress does it whenever it comes to giving themselves raises. So don’t tell me 16 cents a gallon is compensation for the pain and suffering inflicted by ruthless profiteers or after 20 years changing the age on a purchase of an assault weapon is going to fix our culture of hate and fear that glorifies blood, guts, murder and mayhem. We have killed over 6 million people by declaring war on terror and Mother Nature. Enough is enough. This shift is NOT working.
This is who we are now. This is what we do and it sucks. This 4th of July is going to be a turning point in our democracy. It will be our 246th year old birthday. And Mother Nature is putting us on notice and she does not negotiate with terrorist. So its time to stop raping and pillaging and poisoning and killing all her amazing animals, plants and environment or she will get even which is what she does best and that is not going to be pretty. Climate change and Covid are just the tip of the disappearing iceberg, She’s in charge of earthquakes, extreme heat, cold, floods, droughts and fires. She is losing patience and if this country doesn’t find its moral compass and turn things around NOW it is hasta la vista baby for ingrates that only know how to terrorize, fillet, disembowel, eviscerate, capitalize and desecrate Nature’s bountiful generosity. Oil companies top off the list to kick off our birthday celebration of gas prices down to $4 a gallon in 30 days paid for out of their pockets or we cut off subsides on day 31. At the same time Congress passes an emergency court order to collect a windfall profit tax on oil companies and that goes into effect in 60 days. This is an emergency. And we better start acting like it and do what needs doing or else.