by Alfred Nylund

Created on: February 15, 2007   Last Updated: March 19, 2008

The oil companies really should be taken to task when it comes to their record-breaking profits during economic tough times. I'm not saying we should have anything but a free-market capitalist economy, but do they have to make 10 times the profits of their previous year? Can't they make 3 times the profits and lower gas prices?

It's the same old story. There's no incentive in capitalism to exercise morality when pursuing the bottom line, so long as it's all legal. We can hate an oil company like Exxon Mobil, but we still need gas. And when it comes right down to it, if we can save time or money, we're going to stop at an Exxon or a Mobil gas station.

Now, whether Hillary Clinton has what it takes to stand up to the oil companies, I don't know. Does she have the vision to move the country's energy policy toward renewable forms of power and fuel, while at the same time easing the burden on the American taxpayer?

Only time will tell.

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