Against Big Oil

Exxon $11billion 1st quarter profit
Shell Oil $8 billion in profits

Sorry that I have been away for awhile , however , I am going to divert my attention from sports and get on my soapbox that is the concern of every American. Gas prices.  Don't know about everyone else but I drove past my local station and saw that regular unleaded is $4.19 a gallon.  Never mind that  Exxon posted an $11 billion first quarter profit , Shell oil had over $8 billion in profits.   I am all about business making money but when companies and  oil producing nations such as OPEC can control the price of gas for us  Americans it high time we pull up our boot straps and tell these profit mongers enough is enough.  We can no longer be sustainable with high gas prices but yet we have to pay or we cannot go to work to pay for gas in our vehicles, let alone other bills and needs.   The big fat cat oil executives need to take a trip in the communities like Sandy Hook, KY whose per capita income as of the 2000 census was only $13,278.00, or take a stroll in Portsmouth, OH whose per capita  income was $15,078.00.  I am sorry big oil but your oil profiteering ways stinks like yesterdays diapers.   Those big time executives are so out of touch with  the real people or in the case of  BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg " We care about the small people" , this after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico , one of the worst ecological disasters caused by man.   That is what big oil thinks about the working man and woman in America that we are the small people that pad their wallets, pay for their company planes, cars, yachts, their lavish parties.  We pay for all of that America.   

would you trust this guy ??
Saudi King Abdullah

While I am at it the Saudis and everyone else in the Middle East that is a major exporter of oil, think about it why you think they got so rich.   They get money from high prices for oil.   Case in point Saudi Arabia's per capita income as of 2007 was $20,700.00.  much higher that most other countries.  


We need to either drill for more of our own oil, and produce our own oil and quit depending on foreign oil.   We also need to bring manufacturing back to this country that is the only way to jump start this economy , we need to boycott  everything made in China people, its made cheap and not held to the high quality of American made things.  We need to support our local farmers cause without them, this country would be in real trouble.   I am sick and tired of the fighting between Republicans and Democrats, damn it Washington we are Americans first do what is right for the country listen to each other quit bickering about who will not do what, or who is grandstanding I do not care.  Just get the job done that you were put in there to do.  Same goes on the State level .  I am going to quote the great Henry Ford here ,"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." , this not only applies in business but in government as well.     OK I will get off my soapbox for now , it just stinks that big oil is not listening.
Make it a great day.