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Some people are just upset because they're missing out on the profits. You want some of it? Buy stock or invest in sector funds.

That said, it is a little hard to understand complaining about getting hit hard when you're making these kinds of profits. "Oh damn, we're only going to profit 9.9 billion instead of 10.9 billion this quarter!"

Perhaps some of the appearance, though, is the media's fault. It'd be interesting to see the number of stories where a gas company exec was complaining about being hit hard compared to the number of stories where the media was just saying that the industry was getting hit hard. Perhaps we have yet another media inspired biased story for more government regulation. Anyone got some stats?