Dick,
The horror. We are such stupids. Crazy too. You have made the point: for some, getting a membership at Pine Valley in return for submitting a favorable rating makes total sense, just as believing that greatly restricting the supply of oil, gas, coal, and nuclear energy has absolutely nothing to do with the rising prices for gasoline, diesel fuel, electricity, food, etc.
Well, it looks like your man is going to teach those greedy profiteering bastards a lesson (them and the "only 3% of taxpayers" who make more than $250,000 per year). Maybe Obama will direct a huge government contract to one of Nobel Laureate Al Gore's private equity investments for a couple of billion of those cheap mass manufactured solar strips, and distribute a couple to each household. Perhaps they'll be designed with velcro so we can attach them to our backs to power our bicycles for our daily commute, and then pull them off to attach to our push carts on the golf course. We'll really show them who is bigger, BIG OIL or BIG GOVERNMENT!
By the way, you may wish to study the principles "bean counters" utilize for a bit for understanding as well as context. A profit margin of $140,000 per day is a lot of money until all the other costs below the line, liability, scale, and ROI are considered. Relative to BIG HOLLYWOOD AND BIG ENTERTAINMENT, those bastards in BIG OIL have a lot to learn in terms of profit margin, political influence, and duplicity. Is there a single BIG OIL CEO who makes half of what Oprah, Spielberg, and many other entertainment moguls take home? As you say, crazy!