Originally Posted by
SWAcapt
Who is it that is really raping the public here? McDonald's Restaurant had a higher net profit % than did the oil companies and they didn't have to testify on the Hill.
McDonalds makes a profit by offering a product people decide to buy beacuse of its low price and convienence. The oil companies make a profit by controlling the amount of supply given to the public driving up demand to a point where oil sells for $80+ a barrel. If Ronald McDonald was out there buying all the cattle in America and not selling any of it till a burger would cost us $50 a piece, then he would be on the hill explaining himself too. DeBeers has done this for a long time with diamonds, but nobody cares because we don't need jewelery, but everyone in America needs gas. I guarantee if we didn't have an oil man in office and previously a bunch of his friends controlling the house and senate our policy on oil reserves might be a little different. I thought the government was there to protect the people, not the top .05% of the people in the nation who are making record profits. In the end though, it doesn't really matter because this is a nation that is loyal only to one thing... the dollar.