Okay, then why the !@#$% am I paying $4 for oil when they, by your statement, just captured a bunch?
Because America !@#$% the system up, making things not run as smoothly there now. That's why.
Incase you didn't know, oil companies are making RECORD profits now. They're still paying the same amounts in order for them to get oil, yet they charge us more.
Uh, duh, that's because no one !@#$% regulates OPEC...Am I the only one here who can see the forest for the trees?
No one has placed regulations on the prices of oil.
Why does South America have nations with 12cent oil? Because they don't get their oil from the megacorporations like everyone else.
So you are saying that the USA government should step in and say,"This is !@#$%! For the next five years, gas prices are going to be stuck at $3.50 per gallon."
They did that once...long time ago I believe. OPEC has too much power and is not really an America organization. So if we told them to lower prices, they'd just tell us to !@#$% off.
Iraq is not the entire stockpile of oil in the world. We here in the US have enough oil for ourselves for the next few centuries. But damn environmentalists and OPEC prevent us from dirlling which would lower gas prices and OMFG bring jobs back to the USA.
Hell, just about 75% of the oil that comes from the Alaskan pipeline goes to other countries besides the USA... okay, wtf with that?
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