Give Big Oil a break
Daniel B. Jeffs - Apple Valley, Calif.

It appears that USA TODAY has joined the congressional inquisition against Big Oil. This makes it painfully clear that USA TODAY has lost its common sense. Though oil profit percentages are up, taxes on the industry have long been double those percentages.

Big Oil and most large corporations are owned by many millions of middle-income Americans who are invested in retirement programs and savings accounts. They are the ones being punished, not the corporations.

Why do we shoot ourselves in the foot by voting people into power who advocate for more taxes and regulations? Reasonable efforts to produce renewable energies, which are better for the environment, are good. But when these efforts escalate into prohibiting Americans from using readily available oil, coal and natural gas, then it is clear that the USA is headed down a dead-end road to economic collapse.