Exon Mobile made 8 Billion dollars they cannot use the excuse that they have a shortage with changing oil into gas.
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Are you people serious? our oil and gasoline is Subsidized by the US government.  While your crying about $3 a gallon for gasoline, Europe is paying upwards of $7 a liter for their petrol.  The government is the only thing keeping you driving the 4X4 and giant SUV, wake up.\n\nEdit: and while your on Yahoo Answers moaning to all of your "friends" about how evil a democracy the US gov't is, they are loosening the restrictions on your car's waste output, and opening the countries fuel supply for personal use so YOU don't have to ride your bike to the mall tomorrow.\n\nEdit2: YES they CAN use the excuse they cannot convert oil->gasoline.  We are currently refining at MAX capacity (when weather systems allow) We havn't made a new refinery since the 70s, and since it take almost 20 YEARS to complete a new refinery, don't hold your breath. (10 years to complete an oil rig)  Also, why the hell would Exon make a new refinery? From a business standpoint, they have NO motivation to do so, they are getting prime price for their product.
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Because oil means much more to them than soil.
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companyies make decisions based on profit, not morality.  And for most publicly traded companies, their shareholders would not have it any other way.
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Because they have pressure from American oil tycoons.  Look at your president!  We have capability to have cars run on hydrogen but because oil people don't like it, no one make it in great numbers.
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More than likely it is not a publicly traded company, as yet. The stock information will only come from the company itself.
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There are laws prohibiting antitrust and collusion for gas prices or any other industry.  However, since there are no charges being brought forward, then the general conclusion is that prices aren't being fixed.
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they suck is all i know millions of barrels of oil outta the ground and charge lots of money for it .can you imagine drilling for water and hitting that black crap and think water sells by the gallon now to if they could charge for air they would watch out some day there will be a charge .
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There is NOT a supply shortage. Even OPEC and Saudi Arabia are saying there's no shortage. They are saying the gas prices should not be anywhere near as high as they are. What's raising the cost is that oil companies are gouging everyone because they basically have a collective monopoly, even though they're supposed to be in competition with each other. That's why oil companies keep scoring record profits each year while average Americans are getting poorer.
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I think if we all had solidarity we could pick one of the big oil company's each month and not buy from them. Forcing them to scale down or sell their oil wholesale to the other company's. Let's say for the entire month of June we don't buy any products from Exxon/Mobile. That might get their attention.
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1) Exxon Mobil ($459 Billion)\n2) General Electric ($358 Billion)\n3) Microsoft ($282 Billion)
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The thing is the oil compagnies don't want to lose money so they brainwash people into thinking the alternative isn't any good.\nMeanwhile the others are  powerless.\n(The Oil compagnies are more powerful than the latter)
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Look who's running the country...a bunch of oil freaks.  Everytime the price of oil goes up they are cashing in!  They don't want to come up with alternative fuel sources because there is no money in that for them.
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There's a difference between filling a need and creating a need. When cell phones were first invented, no one really knew what they had been missing without them so there was no need. Now they are everywhere, they are needed because we know what it's like not to have them. A good marketing agent capitalizes on the known market and also tries to make new ones that didn't exist. Neither aspect is lying, it's being proactive and inventive.
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because they want to make more money, using any excuse they can find... their actual costs have no bearing on what they sell it for much of the time... perception over reality...
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the whole point is that the companies might be talking to each other about what price to put so their prices are soo close you can't tell, the second problem is that if a gas station finds it cheaper to buy from exon then from BP then it will go with exxon, so you can't tell where it's always coming from. \n\nthe other problem is that if you boycott one company the other gas stations will be swarmed with too much demand and will have to raise prices or  buy from the guy that you are trying so hard to boycott.\n\nride a bike, ride the bus, walk, anything but drive.
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You haven't even considered the fact that the Automobile Industry has outsourced jobs away from Americans. America has been lead by a capitalist system and removed most of the mass transit systems such as trains, and trolley cars in their infrastructure. Some cities don't even have bus systems, and or are cutting funding to bus routes. We are not expanding in those obvious areas. This hydrogen fuel system has been available for over 30 years. This isn't a public situation, but an obvious Government decision from the start. I don't believe that there is a shortage of oil; because of the wells being capped off in Texas in the 80's as the largest oil reserve in the World.
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Could this be it? It was written on the right date and has the words "shortage" and "oil" in the title.\nhttp://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2003/nf2003041_2516_db053.htm\nHope I've helped.