Who’s to Blame?
This began as a response to my brother’s entry entitled Soapbox, but quickly grew long-winded enough that it belonged more as a post here.
Apologies for the excessive use of links, but when I hit Wikipedia and other sources so extensively to form a cogent argument, I like to incorporate all those links into the resulting post!
Who is to blame for the increasingly excessive fuel prices we are paying at the pumps?
Big Oil is an easy target, and on the surface a quite viable one, given the profits they’re taking in. The fact remains, they are an EASY target. There are others to blame, and some introspection shows the blame hits very close to home. Further, Big Oil isn’t a strictly American enterprise; here’s the breakdown of the companies usually referred to as “Big Oil”:






