Oil Companies

Oil companies erupt into Mural Room fury as Toby skewers them for ruthless price gouging amid White House emissions crackdowns, while Hoynes mounts a fierce defense—expensive additives jack up costs, shutdowns loom from regulatory whipsaws, price swings batter operations—positioning these energy behemoths as policy victims caught in crossfire, their pricing power fueling antitrust clashes and exposing raw tensions between industry survival and consumer outrage in the administration's high-stakes energy gambit.