Are we gaing ground in the boycot effort against major oil  producers? It appears that it IS working in Tennessee
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I'm sure you already know my position on the futility of a boycott, but here's the link just in case: http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp\n\nOf course, you're still free to boycott the companies.  Do you actually have solid proof (news links, graphs of average gas prices in Tenn with a time series plot, or anything else similar)?  Or is this just a statement phrased like a question?
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We should riot against the oil companies. Their the most greedy people I've ever seen or heard of. \n\nThe oil companies need to go under strong investigation (not governmental investigation cause the government could care less about us) Whoever is found out (how ever many people that is) that have raised gas prices to where certain families struggle to get to school and work should be immediately forced to donate ALL their money and be thrown in prison awaiting the public's vote on what to do to them. -- that sounds a little extreme but the oil companies have ruined so many lives that they deserve it.
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Your mistake is basic: you're presuming that the oil in the ground belongs to America.  It doesn't.  It belongs to ExxonMobil, BP, etc.  Think they'd want to lower profits to benefit us?  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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I can't believe how many answerers didn't get it. I got it. It's another example of the 'forced' liberalism causing lost work. Just like what could be the safest and most productive oil fields, isn't even started on, because of the liberal environmentalists. I worked in that industry for a while, needless to say, I don't anymore.
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In our area, we are boycotting Exxon. Do not know if it is working yet, but boy does it feel good when I drive by Exxon & refuse to pay their high prices. We used email notification. Someone emailed me - then I emailed all my friends - then they emailed all their friends. Almost everyone I know is in on the Boycott. Exxon eat dirt not my money.
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Of course not. \n\nUnlike the case of the 1970's embargo, there is no shortage. Oil and gas are abundant. The oil producers and their cronies realized that a demand for the product exists at a higher price, and have proceeded to manipulate the market to jack up the price. Of course, the government is looking the other way. In the past, everytime they tried to do that, a small portion of the Strategic Oil Reserve was released and oil prices soon dropped. \n\nWhy is that not being done now?\n\nCan anyone guess the answer? \n\n(A cue: remember Farenheit 911?)
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I say bring it on. And, after the investigations have concluded you will hear that they find no wrongdoing. I know you libs and your conspiracies have it all figured out, but oil companies do not make but 8 or 9% profit on gasoline. Your answer for everything is more government control. It's supply and demand, THAT is what drives prices and we are in competition with China since we are the two countries who consume most of the oil in the world. Oh, one more thing, It's not George W. Bush's fault either!\n\nExcellent post! It's nice to know there are like minded people out there.
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It is supply side economics it has never worked but the conservative agenda is to force it on us. If you have a pile of boxes and you want to move them if you pick up the top box all you move is the top box if you lift from the bottom all the boxes move up, including the top box. Their policy on oil is a bit suspect to, with the higher prices for fuel it will raise the price of everything to cover the cost of transporting the commodity's from factory to store.
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Nothing. They're not the first nor will they be the last, unfortunately. One of the guys "Menchaca" is from my home-town. I'm very upset about it but what can the military do? They're following Bush's orders. To think it's all for the oil.
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Good question.  If it does, it will be for the oil, same as with Iraq.  Or at least, that is what it seems to most people in the world.
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Anyone who believes OIL had nothing to do with the Bush Decision is living in a fantasy world.\n\nOn the other hand the author of the second article ,Amir Butler,e xecutive director of the Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee (AMPAC), obviously didn't realise how unsuccessful  we would be as shown by the quote below, Cetainly $36 billion for exxon is not a short term reduction.\n\n"An American-backed junta in Iraq would also enable the US to smash OPEC's hold over oil prices. The US or its client regime could increase Iraqi oil production to levels well beyond OPEC quotas, driving prices\ndown worldwide and weakening the economies of the oil producing nations,thus lessening their likelihood of abandoning the dollar. It would have the short term effect of reducing the profits of domestic oil companies, but the long term effect of securing America's economic hegemony."\n\nHe continues on "The frequently offered canard of the Left that this war is being fought to secure oil revenues for American oil companies may have some truth to\nit. However, a more plausible explanation may be that the Bush administration is waging war to protect the dollar and smash the OPEC hold over international oil prices. It's a war whose purpose is bigger than Halliburton or Exxon: it's a war being fought to maintain America's\nposition in the world.\n\nIn hindsight it certainly looks like exxon and Halliburton to me as America's position in the world has only taken a beating
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We need an alternative government to go with our alternative fuels.  It won't happen until we get someone in the white hose with out any ties to BIG OIL.  This goes for the Dems too.
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Might be time for a reality check, huh? They don't hate the troops, just the policies leading to the war for oil.
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Yes there has.  Due to the falling price of wholesale crude on the international commodities market, OPEC announced an intent to cut back production of crude.  Further, as we head into winter months, heating oils and diesel fuel (for shipping of goods) has a spike in consumption.\n\nWhat this means is the volatility of the crude, fuel, gasoline, and heating oil markets are directly effected by the speculators on the market itself.  What you are seeing is a market response to speculator manipulation of the price.  It has nothing to do with the elections, just brokers and individual investors trying to make a quick buck.\n\nThe best response to this would be a massive investment in the ability of the US market to refine a greater quantity of our imported crude, and to explore even greater quantities of crude from domestic sources.
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No.\n\nWe want their freakin' oil.
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they already started to go up, ON ELECTION DAY.  opec must be sick with the election outcomes.  i hope the investigate 4.00 a gallon last year, i hope nobody forgot
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its no coincidence\n\neven if he is no longer in the oil industry...which I doubt...  I am sure he has his dirty little fingers in there somewhere...  he still has all his friends and cronies in the oil business that are making money hand over fist with these price increases.