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  This is so much deeper and both parties are at fault.  Think about this record profits for Oil also means record profits for government gas tax.  But yet our infrastructure is falling apart still and is way outdated.
  United States has reached that point where there is so much money nobody really knows we’re it’s going.
context: These people price-gouged so fucking hard it caused ACTUAL inflation……we need hearings, trials, and windfall taxes…….not whatever the fuck this is………. >
  
  Solid points but have you ever considered Hunter Bidens laptop?????? ^^^^/s >
  
  Word around the office is hes gotta fat cock. 😏 >
  
  "Eww 🤤. Eww 🤤.  We HAVE to see how gross it is 🤤" - homophobic conservatives probably >
  
  Lord Avert my eyes from this big juicy wonderful pecker >
  
  Lord, let us study every sinful girthy vein and wrinkle, and permanently sear this powerful image into our memories, that we may look back and know what to admonish >
  
  Praise the Lord. >
  
  Their portfolios are doing exceptionally well I'd bet.  Republicans will burn the world to make political points.
  
  On the same day that the largest oil company in the United States reported record profits for 2022, Republicans used the first House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing of the new year to promote the further expansion of climate-wrecking fossil fuel production and attack efforts to build out renewable energy infrastructure.
  The energy panel is chaired by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), the top recipient of oil and gas PAC money in the last election cycle and a longtime advocate of opening U.S. public lands and waters to fossil fuel drilling.
  In keeping with her record, Rodgers kicked off Tuesday's hearing by touting the House's passage of legislation that would require the federal government to lease a certain percentage of public lands and waters for fossil fuel extraction for every non-emergency drawdown of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
  
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  They tried to limit congress from having investments due to conflicts of interest, but how about conflict of interests for committee assignments? If your largest campaign donor is an oil company then you shouldn't be on a committee for them. Hell, can we just get rid of all the lobbyists and back to doing what's best for people instead of for corporations? >
  
  Citizens United is the real problem. It's not going away, like ever. Unlimited anonymous campaign donations. In other words, he with the gold makes the rules. >
  
  CU isn’t helping but it is a problem that goes back even further than that. >
  
  "We need to be doing more to secure and unleash American energy," Rodgers said Tuesday.
  Republicans act like securing and unleashing American energy benefits everyday Americans and not just the corporations that have been raking in profits. 
  We've been the largest producer of oil and natural gas since 2018. >
  
  They also ignore the large amount of flat land that can be developed for solar and wind farms. But then that would be doing something. >
  
  that flat land is neded for cows >
  
  Thank God that the Republicans fight for big oil. >
  
  Who else would speak for the little guy?  Those hard working (sometimes) American oil companies, struggling because they're disenfranchised by those heartless libruls >
  
  These pricks have figured out that artificial inflation/scarcity is the better way to make money. Welcome to the next stage of capitalism. This shit ain’t going away. >
  
  I was told that Exxon and other companies weren’t the issue with their obvious price gouging and it was just everyone reacting to inflation outside their control. I was told that this false story would be true once quarterly earnings came out showing that these companies weren’t making record profits. 
  Hmmm…I don’t think these lies panned out so well for most of these companies and now talking heads at CNBC and other media companies are trying to make excuses for these companies. Fuck them all. >
  
  I was told that it was OPEC’s fault, and that there was nothing these good American companies could do except make record profits.  Their hands were clearly tied. >
  
  About $1700 per second of 2022 in profit for Exxon… >
  
  This is gross, obscene and makes me want to break something. >
  
  Use your broken pencil to write a script and email it to your legislators and call their offices and demand change. (Also good luck unless you are a major donor.) >
  
  The blatant shilling should be embarrassing, except this Republican House is full of shameless lemmings who aren't capable of serving the public's interests. >
  
  Most folks just don’t want to believe they’re being lied to. The GOP banks on this strategy. >
  
  What’s that quote about it being easier to fool someone than convince them that they’ve been fooled? I feel like that applies here. >
  
  The Emperor's new clothes >
  
  Because they’re actually owned by Oil and other industries that don’t really give a fuck about the people?
  What did you think would happen when lobbyists bought our politicians??? >
  
  We've been electing corporatists to run the gov't for 40+ years, but we can't complain about corporatism in gov't without being labeled "communist/socialist." This country is so dumb. >
  
  Agree! This “American Last Series Finale®️” is something we (Americans) have been working on for decades! >
  
  They want to pump the ideal amount - enough to barely meet demand but not over-saturate the market- but they also want to control leases so no one else can over-saturate it. Then they want to take their entire marketing budget and tell us how environmentally conscious they are and how hard they are working towards alternatives. >
  
  Business as usual. >
  
  GOP pays them very well. Gets their money’s worth >
  
  The reverse on who's paying who. >
  
  Surprising literally no one in the process. >
  
  The US citizens got robbed blind. There is a party celebrating the theft and hardship… >
  
  Big oil and big pharma, 2 of the biggest enemies to the human race >
  
  What a bunch of assholes >
  
  As is tradition >
  
  Imagine being an American, and being so fucking brain dead and stupid that you vote Republican. The lowest common denominator is way too high of a percentage in this country. >
  
  Mindblowing that so many adults living in a first world country during the age of technology and information fall for the GOP's absurd talking points. >
  
  As long as big oil keeps paying them, the GOP will say whatever it’s told to say . >
  
  Republicans shilling for Big Oil.  Must be any day in Washington DC… >
  
  When Texas freezes again and the company shuts off heating to thousands of people I can't wait for the spin on why we need more gas and oil. >
  
  The GOP are now playing all US Consumers for suckers.   Will far-right continue to ignore reality? >
  
  Ignoring reality is fundamental to embracing their far-right ideology. >
  
  “Empty suits applaud their donors and refuse to represent constituents.” >
  
  I don't get it. How is it cheaper to invest millions into climate change denying politicians and media companies every year than it is to invest in research and development into clean energy so that it gets efficient enough to be viable?
  I mean, people say that right now clean energy isn't at a high enough level of technology yet to be viable. But, okay, if it's never invested in, it's never going to be viable. So we have this loop of "It's not viable yet, so let's not invest in it so it continues not being viable". Meanwhile, we're now seeing the visible effects of climate change and STILL these companies would rather pay politicians to say it's not happening rather than try to get clean energy to the level it needs to be at.
  And no, I'm not going to debate whether or not climate change is real. At this point, it's like debating whether or not the earth is flat. We have clear scientific evidence and the only people who say otherwise think all the evidence is somehow faked and paid for by george soros or liberals or whatever, and to debate that is like debating a brick wall. >
  
  Thanks GOD ,, finally >
  
  Well Exxon has a world class CEO. Say what you will about oil profits but their leadership is worldclass >
  
  Ya gotta be a world class idiot to have praise for those vampires. >
  
  Will it ever end?  Will Americans ever stand up and tell these leaches to stop holding the American economy and innovation hostage? We don’t need oil and gas at the capacity being consumed. We can do way better and should invest in alternatives to drive down demand. >
  
  Probably not considering half those American are f’n idiots that believe anything those oil companies politicians tell them. 90% of Republican voters kneel
  at the alter of all these companies holding our country hostage. There’s literally no hope for them. >
  
  Let me guess
  Republicans: Well...that's just good business