WTF: Oil Companies Are Heroes???

ABC New's John Stossel (who is also a global warming denier), went on Larry King to... to... well, to call oil companies heroes.

"I think these oil companies are heroes. Think what it takes to bring this stuff to us, across an ocean, refine it into three types of gasoline, put it in trucks that cost 100,000 dollars each, ship that to gasoline stations that have to have this expensive equipment so we don’t blow ourselves up pumping our own gas."

Yes, and they certainly do it for altruistic reasons, not at all for  profit.

Their efforts at achieving record breaking profits, destroying of our economy and fleecing of the American public I guess could be described as "heroic."

If you're a dick.

What exactly can be done with someone arguing from Stossel's mindframe? His rhetoric is clearly not rooted in any sort of reality.

And are those who give idiots like this access to our airwaves complicit in the helping spread the stupidity?

But Stossel's poor-man's-Geraldo 'stache, that IS heroic.

Source.

Comments

[stevo]

i think he's confused the word, "heroic" with "psychotically shameless", words to describe Stossel? like say, rat bastard piece of fucktard shit? nah, just better to hang this phrase on him, John "oil companies are heroic" Stossel

[BaltimoreGal]

To quote- well, John Stossel- "give me a break".

Didn't his reporting get discredited a few years ago? He's probably trying to get a job on Faux News.

[fordprefectajt]

We should all fly Exxon and Shell flags this 4th of July so that we remember the sacrifices that Big Oil has brought us.

Not only is it ridiculous to call someone a hero for doing something for pay (in this case, ridiculously high pay while everyone else gets to foot the bill), but then their behavior is nothing but greedy.

Plus, we keep going to war to help them out, which costs money and lives (on both sides).

I didn't know I was a hero for putting in 40+ hours of work each week for just my salary.

Ridiculous.