It makes you think...about pulling out your hair

This little snippet from when the Senate called up the CEO's of the major oil companies, like Marlon Brando summoned "the heads of the five families" and berated them about the price of gas:

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) added that in his state, "regular was $3.89, medium was $4.04, super was $4.12." Asked the senator: "Where does this end?"

"I would like to be able to answer that," Exxon's [CEO Stephen Simon] said. But "it's absolutely impossible" to predict. "I'm not smart enough to do so."

He only made $32.7 million last year, so obviously he's not spending it on doctoral research, or even capable of picking up a phone and asking someone who is much smarter and paid much less.