Letters to the Editor
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The comparison is valid...
...if only because nothing within the realm of the oil industry and its official business doctrine of distortion and obfuscation really allows for apples-to-apples correlation. They like it that way.
It's what enables them to blame foreign oil supplies for gas spikes instead of their own purposeful reduction in refining capacity.
It's what enables them to lobby IN FAVOR OF strict refining rules in California (as strategized in several memos that are now public) to keep competition out, and then blame environmentalists for demaining those unreasonable refining rules when people ask why the refining capacity is so inadequate.
It's what enables them to accept billions of tax dollars to address the "refining problem" that they themselves have created and perpetuate.
Trying to be fair in this comparison certainly has any oil company execs who might have read the War Room comments today (which is almost certainly 0) flat on their asses, laughing hysterically. Being fair doesn't mean squat in the battle of tragically uninformed public opinion...