"For years, Washington has failed to address the issue of rising energy costs and, as a result, the country now faces a true energy crisis, one that is causing serious harm to America's manufacturing sector and all consumers of energy."

"Congressional demagogues have always used 'Big Oil' as a handy pejorative, but criticizing the oil industry now seems to be a national pastime on Capitol Hill, with both conservative and liberal Democrats piling on."

-- Mark J. Perry, a professor of finance and economics at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan (writing in Investor's Business Daily.)