Dickey I will pick on Exxon for you. In it's push for profit it has costed the people of Alaska there lively hoods, depleated their natural resources, poluted their coastline so that many of the coastal animals that inhabited the area will not see a rise in their population for generations & the fines imposed even after all these yrs have not been payed & the clean up was never completed & who paid for that?. Think, where do they get their oil from? What do they pay in costs to the owners of the land that they draw the oil from? Someone own's that land, someone owns those resources & those someones aren't seeing much from the granted oil & land rghts. The price of gas is skyrocketing & their profits are enormous, their tax brakes & shelters are getting larger all the time & the workers that are producing are not really seeing much in the way of wages & benifits. As a matter of fact Exxon has been pushing consistently over the years for reduced crews aboard their tankers & fighting double hull plating as saftey standards. So Dickey tell me about your rich friends & how they take care of the poor.

Barry