Thursday, May 15, 2008 | 2:03 a.m.
Why must people in the media always jump on the bandwagon of politicians, like trained chimpanzees, every time they find some “whipping boy” to blame for the country’s ills?
Now it’s “Big” Oil again.
Come on, folks, oil executives have been called up in one congressional hearing after another. Members of Congress keep trying, but they can’t find anything illegal, improper or even immoral in the business conduct of the oil companies.
For years, they’ve had the best accountants and the best investigators trying to dig up something, anything, they can use to nail the heads of oil executives to their office walls. For some that’s their Holy Grail!
Don’t you know Congress knows exactly what Exxon’s earnings, profits and dividends are per share? If any price gouging existed, indictments would have been handed down already.
But their huffing and puffing makes them look good to the people who keep them in office, and that’s the real purpose of all those hearings
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