Grimble Facehook wrote on August 07, 2007 04:57 PM: Your collective self-absorbed braying isn't nearly loud enough. I won't be happy until gasoline is AT LEAST five dollars a gallon, and you complacent fat-asses are forced to consider more gas-efficient cars or -- be still my beating addiction to convenience and sense of entitlement -- car pooling. Louder, I say! Louder!

Steve wrote on August 07, 2007 03:13 PM: Besides, the price of gasoline isn't as related to the price of oil as it is to the limited number of refineries. More refineries pushing out more refined product will reduce the price of gasoline. But, thanks to the liberal tree-huggers, more refineries can't be built so we will continue to get gouged by the oil companies and now, thanks to idiots who want to tax the oil companies more, we will get gouged even more to make up for the loss to the oil companies.

Steve wrote on August 07, 2007 03:10 PM: Travis: Talking about "head in the sand" look in your mirror. What do the "excessive profits" have to do with taxes? If you weren't so ignorant, you'd understand that we were stating that the oil companies will STILL make "excessive profits" even IF they are taxed more. They will simply increase their prices to the consumer and THE CONSUMER will pay the taxes. Even someone with your obvious limited intelligence should be able to see that.

Travis wrote on August 07, 2007 02:53 PM: Ken and Steve, did the price of gasoline go down when the oil companies were making excessive profits? The answer is no. You are both fools for agreeing with the corporate babble that continues to drive corporate profits through the roof. I don't trust an industry that profits from zone pricing. I also don't trust an industry that raises the cost immediately after oil goes up, but only slowly lowers it when oil goes down. Get your heads out of the sand please.

Steve wrote on August 07, 2007 12:13 PM: Ken, you are correct. However, extreme left-wing liberal sheep like Randy and Eric are incapable of thinking so they don't understand that the oil companies won't be paying these taxes....the consumer (like them) will end up paying it in higher costs. They will never understand because Billary has told them everything will be OK so, lacking the ability for independent thinking, they believe it is OK.

Ken wrote on August 07, 2007 08:30 AM: Tax the oil companys? Good thing they are not smart enough to pass those cost on to the consumer.

Louis S. Coletta wrote on August 07, 2007 06:57 AM: Bravo! Too bad the last Republican standing tall enough to stop this is considered unpopular and can't run again. I'll miss my president, President George W. Bush.

Randy wrote on August 07, 2007 06:39 AM: This editorial is inane, even for the RJ. Eric and Pete are correct. There have been tax loop holes for the petroleum industry big enough to sail an oil liner through. Then there are the subsidies that allow them to collect refunds after now paying a penny of taxes.

Always remember, King George and the court jester Dick Cheney are both oilmen.

Joel Rossetti wrote on August 07, 2007 06:32 AM: 'One for you nineteen for me..' that belongs in the Democratic Party Mission Statement.
Cost of oil too high? Federal Reserve has too much currency in circulation. Issue some Bonds to soak up all that loose currency and you'll see gold down around $400. @ ounce and oil prices will come down.

Larry wrote on August 07, 2007 03:31 AM: The big oil companies are an easy to hate if you listen to our politicians.

The big oil companies are easy to hate because they are successful, but isn’t their success because we decide to drive the big gas guzzling vehicles?

Look at what portion the Government takes for each gallon of gas, then decide who the villains really are.

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