Exxon Hates America

From Reuters:

The United States will always rely on foreign imports of oil to feed its energy needs and should stop trying to become energy independent, a top Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) executive said on Tuesday.

Instead of trying to achieve energy independence, importing nations like the U.S. should be promoting energy interdependence, McGill said.

"Because we are all contributing to and drawing from the same pool of oil, all nations -- exporting and importing -- are inextricably bound to one another in the energy marketplace," he said.

You know who's really hurting our country and aiding the terrorists? Us. All of us. Every time we fill up our SUV's with middle-eastern oil, we're spending money that, in many cases, is funneled into terrorism, and into programs that educate young men and women on how evil Americans are.

McGill and his ilk want us to stay firmly fixed to the rotten teat of middle-eastern oil. In the face of burgeoning, promising, abundant alternative energy sources, McGill and Co. would rather we continued funding both sides of the war on global X-Tremism(!)(tm), or whatever we're calling it now.

Of course, record-high profits have absolutely nothing to do with Exxon's stance on this issue.