Where is oil-profit accountability?

To the editor:

Why is it that the government of this country can get involved from everything from seat-belt usage to smoking, but when two oil companies set earnings records for a quarter during an alleged gasoline crunch I hear no screaming from Congress about how that came about. What is it? Are they waiting for oil-company executives to start using steroids or HGH before they get involved?

I had wondered what happened to California's clean air act and the production of the EV-1s and other cars that were supposed to help the air quality for everyone and reduce our dependency on any oil foreign or otherwise, until I watched "Who Killed the Electric Car."

Is this really how our country is run? People all over the nation should be calling and writing their federal legislators and asking how they allowed this to happen. I hope like-minded people all over the world are asking how this happened. We as a nation have been told how bad for everyone communism and socialism are for our whole lives, but it looks to me like we have the same problems from rampant crime to an elite few somehow making all the money. The only difference is we have a vote that really doesn't seem to mean much.

Someone should hold these companies and officeholders in the upper levels of government liable for their actions in this. They are the ones hurting America.

JEFFREY FORD, Jackson