Big Oil companies are raising their prices more than they need to, so as to increase their profits.

Those companies' owners don't deserve more profits -- they deserve to lose everything. But what they deserve is less important than what Americans deserve, and what the rest of the world deserves. Above all, we all deserve to avoid global heating disaster.

The crucial question is whether Americans, and the US government, can take the long view and respond to this gouging by pushing quickly to decarbonize.

So far it appears that Biden is planning to do the exact opposite: to fine oil companies for whatever fossil fuel reserves they do not drill into.

Putin is acutely evil, and dangerous. Oil companies are evil on a longer time scale, and far more dangerous. We must defeat them both, and we know how to do it. we know how to do it.

*Hundreds of environmental protesters have blocked seven oil terminals across the [UK] as part of a campaign to paralyze the UK's fossil fuel infrastructure.*

An interview with participants.

This is a last-ditch effort to stop global heating disaster from killing them before they get old.