Quote:Your all over the place, first of all it's the free market that drills the oil, treats the oil, sends it to the gas station, and then sells it to you. If they quadruple the cost people can't purchase as much and they lose money, that's economics 101 there's a balance between supply and demand, price has nothing to do with government.

 

You don't even know your own argument.

 

When they control supply, they control demand. Limit supply, demand and prices increase.

 

If these companies conspired, like mentioned earlier, then the supply / demand model wouldn't be totally applicable. They'd still make their money but on less expended resources. There's no reason to believe one company couldn't own everything, either. Government doesn't have a factor in that equation until you remove them entirely, then imagine what a corporate oligarchy would do without any threat of legal action. People will not stop using oil / gas, Eric. 

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