Quote Originally Posted by Chubminnow View Post
You all are talkin' natural gas and oil refinieries and such are doing so well...how come we consumers continue to pay through the nose at the pumps, does anyone know? (Serious question)
Personally I think it's a lot of arm twisting to rape the consumer. Politicians are up to their ears in money the oil lobbyists have slipped to them and they will always favor big oil over the consumer.

I have two first cousins that each have a producing oil well on their property. One of them told me that the oil company has done everything imaginable to get all of his mineral rights. At the present time after the oil company takes their share, and he pays royalty taxes and income tax, he receives only about 8% of the profits.

I own three times as much land as he has, and I own 100% of the mineral rights. There are oil wells all around me but there isn't one on my land and there will never be if the oil companies try to pull that kind of crap on me.