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Originally Posted by BuckNaked";p="
How would that reduce the cost?? The demand wouldn't be as high and they would have to raise prices to maintain the same cash flow??
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If this statement were true the price of gas would never drop... and yet it does.
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Originally Posted by BuckNaked";p="
So the drilling would create more oil that needs to be stored as the refineries have plenty of oil, they just can't produce enough to supply the need?? If they had more oil to stockpile costs would also go up as they would need to pay for the storage???
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Actually it means they would not have to pay the costs of importing oil from a far away land.
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Originally Posted by BuckNaked";p="
Then as soon as the oil companies realize we are paying less when they know we can pay more, they will come up with excuses (terrorism security, storms, storage, to get their greedy hands on the money the government is no longer cheating us out of in the first place???
I would hope that we don't have to resort to price controls, but we (most of the planet) are literally at the mercy of the oil companies until an alternative can replace our dependency!!! Also not good!!!  |
Sorry, but everytime someone investigates oil "price-gouging", they come up with nothing. I know you think this means a cover-up, but you know what? Sometimes, if you keep coming up with nothing, it means that there is nothing to come up with. Most recent example? The Supreme Court's 8 to 0 decision (Justice Alito not yet participating) shot down a claim that oil companies were colluding in setting prices. Liberals and conservatives on the Court were unanimous on this one.
Okay, here's the part where you say the Oil Companies bought the Supreme Court...