Summertime, and the Livin’ Is Easy—If You’re Big Oil Article Summertime, and the Livin’ Is Easy—If You’re Big Oil The big five oil companies continue earning huge profits—more than $25 billion in the second quarter—yet they receive billions of dollars in unnecessary and unwarranted tax breaks. Aug 1, 2014 Danielle Baussan, Miranda Peterson, Bineh Ndefru