• Obama: BP responsible for paying costs of oil spill
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[QUOTE=DamagePoint;21715609]No, there are other oil companies. Meaning if bp raises their prices people will buy gas somewhere else. Like Exxon. Of course that's what bp would like you to think though.[/QUOTE] except the price of oil is all about speculation/panic so the price will rise.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;21708423] That's not going to work assuming BP isn't colluding with the other oil companies. If BP gas i $4 a gallon, but it's $3 a gallon at the Shell station, nobody is going to go to BP.[/QUOTE] Yes, the other couple of companies that control the vast majority of America's oil will totally object to arbitrarily raising prices another dollar. We need to nationalize our oil companies and institute price controls already. Take corporate greed and incompetence out of the equation and operate them like nonprofits like we do with public electricity companies.
[QUOTE=radioactive;21706671]Why do we still waste Oil as a fuel? Wouldn't Hydrogen or Fission be more efficient and you could sell more of it and make more money?[/QUOTE] I'm probably thinking of something different, but wouldn't a fission powered car cause quite a huge amount of damage if it were, say, to crash into a lake?
I'd rather we spend our tax dollars on planned parenthood clinics!!!!
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