South Dakota To Build First New Oil Refinery in 32 years

South Dakota residents should be proud of themselves. In a time when Washington, D.C. offers no solutions and double-talking politicians complain about gas prices while blocking any effort to drill domestically, South Dakota comes through with a solution. Build a big new refinery and force more domestic drilling!

Now, nothing has happened yet and [...]

Exxon Mobil Setting New Records In Income Tax

Exxon Mobil reported this week that it set an all time new record– not in earnings or profit, but in income taxes paid to the government in a single quarter. Exxon Mobil paid $9.32 billion in income taxes in the first quarter of 2008 alone, which is a record for U.S. corporate taxes. [...]

SHOCKER: Eliot Spitzer’s Party Affiliation Ignored

Yesterday morning, the governor of New York and former Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, confessed to inappropriate behavior relating to a prostitution ring. Of course, one can only imagine what kind of behavior we are referring to. The irony drips heavily from this story as Spitzer is known for his arrogant demeanor and overly [...]

Exxon Mobil: Pays more tax than 50% of Americans combined

From many of the politicians in Washington, you hear over and over about how BIG OIL is the enemy. Barack Obama actually said several weeks ago that America needs to free itself from the “tyranny of oil”. Similar rhetoric is common throughout the left. Maybe someone on the democratic side of things should explain to [...]