"Big Oil" makes roughly 8¢ per gallon profit. For this they have to get the crude, either by drilling or purchase, build and run the refinery, and transport the materials and product. Contrast that with the roughly 18¢ federal tax per gallon. For that they contribute nothing to the process. "Big Oil" is the easy target, but they aren't the bad guys here. Making their lives miserable will just make ours more miserable.

Big companies make big investments so they can have big sales figures. Big profits are the logical outcome. Record sales means record profits. Expecting anything else is sensless. Do more work and make less money? Not for me, thank you.

Oh, yeah, and our Senator Schumer is an idiot....