Patrick's Rants

Ben Stein is a self proclaimed genius (Win Ben Stein’s Money) who has commented on many a subject including the story on credit cards where he says he is the worst customer for the credit card companies because he pays his cards off each month. The thing that got me bent is that he recently commented on the record profits that oil companies have posted recently. Basically he stated that oil companies aren’t to blame for the high price of gasoline, that they are victims of the oil markets. If that’s the case why the hell are they posting record profits? If they are profitting a fixed dollar amount per barrel then I might be able to follow his argument, but since they don’t his barrel is empty.