Businesses will tend towards whats best for the business. Not absolute. In many cases that will also tend to be good for the economy.
Don't think I mentioned anything about environmental law being led solely by ideology, though this latest religion called climate change is approaching that level.
Just to throw a wrench in your works...it seems largely forgotten that I ended up in these forums oh so many moons ago advocating FOR further regulation and breakup of Microsoft.
And you should know better than to throw that "record profits" nonsense around. I don't here anyone complaining about ArcelorMittal or IBM et al who had higher margins than the oil business. The numbers are bigger than everyone else's because they are the largest companies in the world.