Expert: 'Big Oil' reaps 80% of gas money

The lure of Twinkies, coffee and cigarettes - once the lifeblood of gas station owners and franchisees - has diminished, which means it's even more difficult to stay in business these days.

[Bob from Oxford]

It's nice that Mike broke down the tax part of the oil cost for us, but he doesn't break down the 80% that goes to "Big Oil". What about the cost of the crude, refining costs, storage costs, distribution costs, salaries, benfits, etc, etc. Everyone wants to blame big oil, how about blaming Democrats and their Rino accomplises in Congress that have kept us from drilling for our own oil, building new refineries and new nuclear plants. These morons have been doing this for 30 years and is now catching up big time. Let's put the blame where it belongs, Democrats.

[anonymous]

Regardless of what the government is doing or is not doing, these big oil companies are EVIL and should not be ripping people off. You reap what you sow and that goes on ALL LEVELS in life. They shouldn't be doing what they are doing. How they sleep at night is what I want to know. They ought to be ashamed of themselves...

[Chris in Bpt]

anonymous wrote:

Regardless of what the government is doing or is not doing, these big oil companies are EVIL and should not be ripping people off. You reap what you sow and that goes on ALL LEVELS in life. They shouldn't be doing what they are doing. How they sleep at night is what I want to know. They ought to be ashamed of themselves...

I imagine they sleep quite comfortably, with 11 billion profit in 4 months, just for Exxon alone, you can afford a pretty nice bed.

[turk101]

Hey Bob, How come oil pices began skyrocketing in 2001 when we had a republican congress & Bush/ cheney
dictatorship
Oil tycoons or any other big buisness families should be barred from politics

[big joe]

Bob from Oxford wrote:

It's nice that Mike broke down the tax part of the oil cost for us, but he doesn't break down the 80% that goes to "Big Oil". What about the cost of the crude, refining costs, storage costs, distribution costs, salaries, benfits, etc, etc. Everyone wants to blame big oil, how about blaming Democrats and their Rino accomplises in Congress that have kept us from drilling for our own oil, building new refineries and new nuclear plants. These morons have been doing this for 30 years and is now catching up big time. Let's put the blame where it belongs, Democrats.

These morons have been doing this for 30 years and is now catching up big time. Let's put the blame where it belongs, Democrats

ARE YOU RETARDED?

[Asbestos Head]

turk101 wrote:

Hey Bob, How come oil pices began skyrocketing in 2001 when we had a republican congress & Bush/ cheney
dictatorship
Oil tycoons or any other big buisness families should be barred from politics

If thats the case. Tax and spend Liberal Democrats should be barred from politics too ! Just make a list of all the corporations that moved out of Connecticut since the Liberals implementated the State Income Tax.

[apparently from Ansonia]

Funny, I recall that Governor Lowell Weicker was a Republican.

[vince]

idont have a comment i have a question,oil was 20$ a barrel nothing has changed,it's now 125$ where is the 105$ going?