MSNBC Poll on Oil company Profits

[biscotti]

Huge oil profits: Good business or highway robbery? * 155 responses


Good business 59% Highway robbery 41%

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080261/#survey

[mtnsnake]

1. Now it's 32% good business to 68% highway robbery

[Mika]

2. IOW, if they could 59% would commit highway robbery agin' their neighbors.

Just smell and taste the freedom.

[Hobarticus]

3. Highway Robbery 69%...

Apparently the rest of the country found this poll.

[Fovea]

4. Nationalize it!

Make the profits pay for social services and mass transit.

[TX-RAT]

17. What a great idea, if you want to pay 5 bucks a gallon.

If you think the government can find,drill, produce, transport, refine, transport, and distribute gas cheaper than the private industry. I've got Mountain Villa just outside El Paso TX i want to sell ya.

[Solon]

24. Actually, considering its already one of our more subsidized industries...

Yes the government would be more efficient at that.

[Fovea]

25. Actually,

$5 bucks a gallon would get up within shooting distance of the difference between what we pay, and what we subsidize gas burners currently via other budgets.

If gas users paid, for example, the military cost of securing the oil supply as part of the price of gas, I suspect it would easily exceed a $2/gal surcharge.

42K drivers and passengers, cyclists and pedestrians killed on the road every year. What is the social and economic cost of that over time?

My point was not to do it cheaper. My point was to take the robber barons, and shake them inverted until some of what they have stolen from the American people goes back into actually moving America forward in an energy efficient way.

We need to break out of the suburban paradigm before it buries us.
The oil industry has no interest in conservation of oil. With a federally managed oil industry, the actual cost of oil could be borne by those who consume oil. That will spur both conservation and innovation. And we might get back to shouting distance of oil independence, if enough efficiency and demand destruction occurs.

My Sweetie drives 40 plus miles a day to school and back. And the only way to get there is by car on the freeway. That is twisted and wrong, and only a paradigm shift can fix it. The future is to the efficient, and rail wins hands down.

[s-cubed]

5. Now 71% highway robbery. nt

[ed murrow]

6. 68% Highway Robbery

There is very little they can do to justify making 8 billion in three months when we are at War and gas is $3 a gallon

[Ian David]

7. Done

Huge oil profits: Good business or highway robbery? * 469 responses
Good business
26% Highway robbery
74%

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080261/#survey

[MrBenchley]

8. 74% highway robbery...

I notice Medicare Thief Frist is going to hold hearings...I hope one of the oil executives hits him back about his family business gouging on health care and his blind trust...good and hard.

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. done and kick and recommended

[Union Thug]

10. 78% hwy robbery...

[Miss Chybil]

11. 71% Highway Robbery. nt

[RebelOne]

12. 80% highway robbery.

The ones who voted good business must be oil company execs.

[IChing]

13. 80% highway robbery 20% simple economics

[Catchawave]

14. 80% highway robbery

Who the hell is voting for "good business"? gessh.

[givemebackmycountry]

15. 81% robbery - 19% "bidness"

That is all.

[Clintmax]

16. Now 82% Highway Robbery.

The fuckers.

[madokie]

18. 18 good, highway robbery 82

this misadministration is coming apart at the seams. they all connected

[MamaBear]

19. 84% Highway Robbery

Huge oil profits: Good business or highway robbery? * 972 responses


Good business 16%
Highway robbery 84%

Duh.

[gizmo1979]

20. 84% now

you can E-Mail your thoughts too.

[patdem]

21. 90% Highway robbery now...took me 15 mins to finally get the site up

vote and then go back to see the %...Of ALL times for me to be banned for life from AOL it was last night and it took me 3 hours to get back on line..I am not computer guru and I was becomming frantic, now i am crawling at a very slow pace! On dial up

[Metta]

22. Highway robbery 91%.

Great. They need to hear this. Unconscionable usury. Gas should cost 49 cents a gallon for the next five years or they should have the majority of their profits taken to fund education/ health/ your favorite issue for that long.

[sepia_steel]

23. done

Huge oil profits: Good business or highway robbery? * 3358 responses


Good business
9%

Highway robbery
91%

[Raksha]

26. Done!

Highway robbery - 93%, Good business - 7%