Already the new Congress is planning to take aim at the nation's economy. They are capitalizing on anger towards oil companies due to the high cost at the pump in the past few years in an attempt to cripple American businessmen and women.

Speaker Pelosi says she wants to repeal tax breaks oil companies received in the past year or two. What does she want to change?

• Tax breaks for refinery expansion and for geological studies to help oil exploration
• A measure passed two years ago to promote domestic manufacturing that gives a tax credit to companies willing to drill in the United States instead of elsewhere... you know... not supporting outsourcing?

Firstly, why she and her Democratic comrades would want to lambast companies for promoting American jobs and using American resources and strength, I just don't quite understand.

Secondly, why she would target the essential promotion of business building and American oil infrastructure support with these particual tax credits instead of the ones that give tax breaks for simply doing inventory a different way... well it just seems so obvious she doesn't know what she's doing.

Oil companies are not evil, Madame Speaker. And I pray that the American people see how unfit this measure is, how you are trying to play the "Evil Big Oil" card on businesses who employ thousands of hard working Americans. You act as though earning money, profits, especially big profits, is evil and sinister. Well, let me tell you, where would you be without this industry? They provide a valuable service to the American people, and quite frankly, they deserve more respect from your side of the aisle.

Oil companies have to deal with multiple nations on a regular basis simply to obtain products to be able to refine gasoline because their own country has so regulated the industry that they rarely are able to build a new refinery, old ones have closed, and the exisiting ones are so filled to capacity that as Canada ups its ante, our system will be grossely overburdoned. There are companies here in the US who have to bypass oil and drill further down to extract natural gas because there is so little excess capacity to refine oil in this country. We have some of the most skilled workers in the entire industry right here in this country and they are being called evil by the Democratic party.

New technologies have allowed for lower emissions and smaller environmental impacts, we have so few of those in existence because oil companies have been demonized. They're painted as these evil corporations who want nothing more than to jack up the price of gas and stick it to the American people. To have so much malice in your heart that you assume anyone who works in that industry is malicious and evil... well I just can't comprehend it.

If the Democratic party really wants to put punishment where it is due, then go after the inventory tax breaks. Don't punish domestic oil companies for drilling HERE, providing jobs HERE, and bringing new innovation HERE.

I'm sorry what did you say? I was too busy watching the Democrats kill the American worker.