Oil companies only do bad. They aren't like environmental groups that only look out for your best interest by blocking attempts to drill oil domestically so we can step closer to becoming energy independent, or by blocking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from going forward with a project to prevent a Category 5 hurricane from flooding New Orleans. It's not like that would ever happen anyway, right?
As a great man once said, all seriousness aside... When gas prices keep getting higher and the oil companies are making record profits, there's obviously something funny going on. However, nobody seems to want to do anything about it. We can produce our own oil for far less per barrel than we can get it from the Middle East, but for the last 30 years or so we've either been unwilling to do it or have had attempts blocked. Rigs in Texas sit silent, and states like Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado are sitting on vast reserves of oil. If we want the price of gas to go down, we need to become energy independent.
Oh, and don't forget to keep Democrats in Congress. The price of gas hasn't quite doubled since they took control in 2006.
