Found this in the story

"In fact, over the last 25 years, federal and state governments took $397 billion from the largest oil companies and another $1.1 trillion in taxes at the pump. In today's dollars, that's $2.2 trillion."

I'm not gonna lose sleep if these companies have to pay a few billion extra a year in tax. Government collects more tax at the pump then they do from these big oil companies. I believe in a free market but when you make that kind of money and theres kids starving and homeless then they too can help out. WTF is someone gonna do with almost 40billion dollar profit anyways?