While Rome burned Nero played his fiddle. Advance 2,000 years and watch Americans burned by out-of-control energy prices while Congress fiddles around with its annual rant against Big Oil.rn"You have to sense what you're doing to us - we're on the precipice here, about to fall into recession. Does it trouble any one of you - the costs you're imposing on families, on small businesses, on truckers Where is the corporate conscience?"-Sen. Richard Durbin, D-IL.rn"The issue is simple. People we represent are hurting; the companies you represent are profiting. 'Current up cycle,' that's a nice term when people can't afford to go to work."-Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT.rn"You have just a litany of complaints that you're all just hapless victims of a system, yet you rack up record profits quarter after quarter after quarter."- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA.
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