首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
There is something profoundly disturbing about the national craze to blame the oil companies for higher gasoline prices. It’s
There is something profoundly disturbing about the national craze to blame the oil companies for higher gasoline prices. It’s
admin
2022-05-13
53
问题
There is something profoundly disturbing about the national craze to blame the oil companies for higher gasoline prices. It’s not disturbing that people are upset about having to pay hugely more for gasoline and oil products. It’s not disturbing that they are looking for someone to blame. The disturbing part is that we as a nation and as a government are blaming entities that have absolutely nothing or next to nothing to do with causing the high oil prices. It is as if we just arbitrarily decided that all left-handed people were to blame for the oil prices. That’s how crazy it is.
Oil companies do not set oil prices. Oil prices are set on gigantic world markets by young millionaire hedge fund traders, by university endowments speculating in commodities, by foreign importers seeking new sources of oil for their economy, by us Americans needing cars to make us feel big and tough.
The American oil companies pay these high prices by and large, add in the costs of refining and transporting, tack on the taxes we need to build our roads, and then sell us our gasoline. We in turn suck it down our throats and zoom around in our big huge cars as if gasoline were still $ 1.50 a gallon.
Yes, some of the oil the oil companies sell is in fields they bought years ago and paid a lot less per barrel for than today’s prices. When the price of oil skyrockets , the oil companies make money, lots of money. But this is how corporations are supposed to work: when prices for things they already own go up, they make money. They’re not charities and we wouldn’t be able to drive for long if they were. And the money the companies make goes to the shareholders, which is basically everyone in the nation with a pension plan, and most of the rest goes to find new oil for us to guzzle down in our 500-horsepower chariots of the future.
Where’s the harm? There’s no price fixing. There’s no stealing. There are just a lot of traders getting very rich driving up the price of oil and a lot of legitimate forces making buyers willing to pay it.
You may not like it and I certainly hate paying four bucks a gallon at my local station in Malibu. But blaming the oil companies is pure scapegoat (找替罪羊). Immense world- wide forces are at work. Immense markets are at work. The oil companies are corks in the ocean compared with those forces.
According to the author, where does the money that the oil companies make go?
选项
A、The oil companies.
B、The word wide oil traders.
C、The charity organization.
D、Everyone in the nation with a pension plan.
答案
D
解析
细节题。文章第四段指出:And the money the companies make goes to the shareholders, which is basically everyone in the nation with a pension plan,受益的是每个人。所以D项符合题意。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Llsa777K
本试题收录于:
MBA联考(英语)题库专业硕士分类
0
MBA联考(英语)
专业硕士
相关试题推荐
外在经济(externaleconomics)
Nameshavegainedincreasingimportanceinthecompetitiveworldofhighereducation.Ascollegesstriveformarketshare,they
Priortothe20thcentury,manylanguageswithsmallnumbersofspeakerssurvivedforcenturies.Theincreasinglyinterconnected
Idon’tthinkyou’llchangehismind;oncehe’sdecidedonsomethinghetendsto______it.
Large,multinationalcorporationsmaybethecompanieswhoseupsanddownsseizeheadlines.(31)Buttoafargreaterextenttha
Consciouslyornot,ordinarycitizensandgovernmentbureaucratsstill______thenotionthatJapanesesocietyisauniquecultu
Newtechnologylinkstheworldasneverbefore.Ourplanethasshrunk.It’snowa"globalvillage"wherecountriesareonlyseco
Thesimpleactofsurrenderingatelephonenumbertoastoreclerkmaynotseemharmful—somuchsothatmanyconsumersdoitw
Thesimpleactofsurrenderingatelephonenumbertoastoreclerkmaynotseemharmful—somuchsothatmanyconsumersdoitw
Thesimpleactofsurrenderingatelephonenumbertoastoreclerkmaynotseemharmful—somuchsothatmanyconsumersdoitw
随机试题
政府信息公开权限的一般原则是?()
A.尤因肉瘤B.骨软骨瘤C.骨巨细胞瘤D.骨肉瘤最常见的良性骨肿瘤是
男性,43岁。因“持续高热、咽喉疼痛1周”就诊。查体:体温39.5℃,贫血貌,咽部充血,双侧扁桃腺Ⅲ度肿大,可见脓肿,全身浅表淋巴结及肝脾未触及,胸骨无压痛。化验:血常规Hb50g/L,RBC1.8×1012/L,WBC1.9×109/L.PLT19×1
以下关于骨骼的Χ线表现的描述,错误的是
某地拟建一规模为年产冶金焦炭120万t的焦化厂,工程总投资8亿元。主要产品有冶金焦、焦炉煤气、硫铵、煤焦油、硫黄、粗苯等。该项目建设2座55孔6m焦炉及与其相配套的备煤系统、筛贮焦系统、150t/h干熄焦系统,煤气处理量为58200m3/h的煤气净化系统等
项目监理机构发现施工单位未按审查通过的工程设计文件施工的,总监理工程师应()。
下列选项中,属于《建设工程安全生产管理条例》规定的工程监理单位安全责任有()。
资本国际化对企业发展的作用有()。
社会生产中最活跃最革命的因素是社会生产力。()
使用CommonDialog控件的()方法可显示“打印”对话框。
最新回复
(
0
)