IS anybody listening to the CEO of Chevron on Larry King?

He is doing a marvelous job of lying through his teeth about the reason Americans are paying so much for gas. I have yet to hear him address the 350+ billion in profits by the major oil comapnies over the last few quarters. He has also not mentioned the tens of billions of dollars in tax breaks these poor destitute oil companies must have to stay alive. Now they have Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) on to shill for the oil companies. Dance Kay dance! That's why they pay you the big money!

and talk to the media.

I heard him the other day on the tube. Some of what he said made sense, but he does skate over the unflattering parts, like those massive corporate welfare checks the oil industry has been getting.

That isn't his fault. It's the fault of a government dominated by oil boys.

Don't like it? Vote against incumbents. All of them.

He is certainly confident that he is the "smartest guy in the room". In my opinion, he suffers from the same delusions of superiority and hubris that infected Jeff Skilling at Enron. Many of these guys really do think that they are demi-gods blessed with the ability to BS anybody. Anything they say or do is OK because they are so important and wealthy.

I agree with you about many of our sitting representatives. Dirty corporate money flows through the system like a river. The most depressing aspect of that fact is that corporate America is getting what they want on the cheap. A few million a year to both parties buys them billions of dollars in profit. America will only be able to deal with this problem by revoking the grotesque notion of corporate personhood and fully funding all campaigns eliminating the subservience of our government officials to the corporate world.

Unlike Skilling, this guy's company can still show a profit without using Salvador Dali inspired accounting techniques. Not to say he's a good guy or anything, but at least his arrogance is a bit more justified than that of Skilling.

as the market will bear?

i couldn't believe he'd be that honest.
dp

real regulator of anything. You can mess with it for a while and cause the price of something to artificially go up or down in price but in the end the market corrects it. The market is bigger and more powerful than politics.

..ie. secret energy meetings, war in Iraq, threats of war in Iran.