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Originally Posted by onwebcam
I'm not trying to give the oil companies any credit but since when did the oil companies knock on your door for a home inspection and give you a bill for said inspection? Since when did they tell you what size TV you were going to buy? Are they billing you $80 a head for your cattle? Did they require you to have a garden permit? Do they have oil police?
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Why would they need to? They control billions of dollars worth of a resource that is at present fundamental to the functioning of society. Why focus on micromanagement when you can control the big picture?
Consider what the average American household spends on oil, gas, energy, etc. Now add to that the percentage of the cost of all other purchases that comes from those things. Like the fertilizer and farm machines used to grow corn, the transportation of that corn to factory farms, the energy spending in those factory farms, the energy used to get the animals to the slaughterhouse, the energy used to get the meat to the stores... etc.
Why bother with insignificant little inspections when you can simply make money from everything that is done anywhere by anyone, and then use that money to buy power? It's much less messy, and you can't get voted out of office.