Viehbacher has worked hard to stablize Sanofi, a proud French company, as it has faced the expiration of the patents on many of its biggest drugs: best-sellers like Plavix for heart disease and Eloxatin and Taxotere for cancer.
Suffice it to say, oil companies are in no danger of being over taxed and if they would invest in more refining capacity for heavy and sour crudes, the supply and demand for petroleum would stablize, at least over the next period.