Corporate Greed - Profit At The Expense Of America

All I remember hearing were the oil companies crying poor-mouth. When Hurricane Katrina hit, gas prices jumped sixty cents in one day. The reason; all the oil refineries were based near New Orleans. Well, who put them all there? The other reason, because oil company executives have high-powered lobbyists who grease the wheels of a lot of crooked politicians. So the entire country paid for the mistakes of the oil companies. Whatever happened to "the cost of doing business?" I would love to run a company that I could just pass on my expenses to the rest of the country.

Crude oil prices have plummeted in the last two months, but I'll bet you never saw the price of gas go down by more than a nickel a gallon in one day. I would imagine that there were a lot of families that had to choose between filling up their gas tank and putting food on the table. Of course, the hardest hit were the people who had to do a lot of driving. From truck drivers to farmers, there were very few in this country that weren't hit by the crunch; which brings me to my next point.

With all the hardships encountered by the American people, as a result of this corporate greed, was there ever a time that our own President stepped in and stopped the oil companies from gouging us mercilessly? No, and the reason: Bush and his family are in the oil business. What this means is that the President of the United States put his own greedy interest in front of the interests of the entire country. Isn't that a conflict of interest? I hope somebody from Congress reads this and realizes what the President did.