And all that will be accomplished by the popular cry to punish the oil companies will be precisely that: Prices will be raised to pay the fines, and then the same populists will be launching a congressional investigation into why prices are so high at the pump.....

Clean up the mess and move on.

Figure out why it happened, and prevent it from happening again.

You can punish a person, but you CANNOT punish a company..........as the costs of the punishment are passed on to everyone else.