Let’s Go After Those Price Gougers

There’s been a lot of the hoopla recently about oil company “windfall” profits, and how we should punish the “price gougers”.

I agree. Let’s go after those darned oil companies with their ridiculous profit margins!

Exxon-Mobil: 10.81%
Chevron: 7.60%
BP: 7.15%
ConocoPhillips: 8.09%

But let’s not stop there. While we’re at it, let’s go after those other price gougers:

Gannett: 15.74% (Owner of 91 daily newspapers across the U.S.)
Reuters Group PLC: 16.44%
The Washington Post Company: 8.85%
The New York Times: 5.40%
Time Warner: 6.66%
Disney: 8.22%

And what about these guys? They’re the kings of price gougers!

Microsoft: 31.57%
Oracle: 23.15%
Adobe: 25.90%
Intuit: 18.40%
Apple: 9.97%

I’m tired of getting gouged every time I read a newspaper, buy Microsoft software or download a song off of iTunes.

Let’s get these guys!