Thousands of companies make more than the oil companies every quarter and the government has not and should not do anything about it. The media only hypes up this one. We live in a free market society. Success should not be punished. Profits in any business are offset by investment. Big oil is getting back around 10% of the investment. There are very many companies that get a lot more than 10% back. The reason why oil companies have not built any new refineries is because democrates will not allow them to do it. Environmentalist own the liberals and will not allow a new refinery, nuclear energy or clean coal plants to be built. Repubs have been trying for 2 decades. The only two laws that passed both the house and senate for any of these was vetoed by Bill Clinton. Quenn Pelosi knows this and she uses it to keep power.