Your Pain, Their Gain: How High Gas Prices Impoverish The Many While Enriching The Few

The next time you're gritting your teeth as you fill your tank with $4 gas, here's something to consider: Your pain is their gain.  The last of the Big Five oil companies announced first-quarter earnings Friday, so the totals are in. Between the five of them, ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips made $34 billion in profits in the first three months of 2011 -- up 42 percent from a year ago.  Click here.