[Gaulkin]

All the companies will continue to have great quarters, demand is rising and supply is falling. The only thing that will change this is the elimination of using fossil fuel.

[tazman9r]

People don't realize that we live in a world of "proprietary Information". What you don't know is used for someone else's benefit all the time. I honestly do not begrudge the oil companies making a profit. Yesterday I heard ExxonMobile made another like 10.5 Bil in profits, and I say good for them. I hear all this crying about gas prices from people who complained about $1.85 per gallon and said it would be the end of the world. I say this, find an industry solution to this "problem". And I am not talking about ethanol. Impacting the food supply so we can have an alternative to oil is not the way to go. Frankly I think the answer has been staring us in the face, we just keep telling ourselves it's not viable. Hydrogen. And I am not talking about transporting and delivering hydrogen in the same way we do gasoline.

What makes electricity on the space shuttle? Reverse Electrolysis. Combining Oxygen and Hydrogen to make electricity, and the byproduct is water. Ok, fast forward to some technology that separates oxygen and hydrogen and burn the hydrogen in a conventional engine. Technology is not the problem, I am confident we could do something like this just with the information I have read.

Here's the real problem. Way too many people make way too much money off the system as it is. And I am not talking about the "oil barons", I'm talking about literally thousands of employees who make various stages of middle income wages working for the oil companies who would then be out of work if the oil companies just "went away". The oil based energy system is so large and employs so many people, I don't doubt it represents a significant part of the tax revenue to the federal government. From income tax on the employees, to corporate taxes from the "gross profits" (remember, oil companies have to pay taxes on all of that money), not to mention the per gallon taxes at $.23 to $.48 per gallon, oil is probably the one of the single largest sources of revenue from large corporate entities.

No one talks about that. They are only focused on what they are paying at the pump.

The next time you go to the gas station, think about all the things you don't know about how these companies do business. Think about how much you don't see, because politicians who claim to be working toward environmental goals won't build new factories, and only let the old ones be built way out away from you.

Do I believe there is some giant conspiracy? No. Do I think there is an agenda? Yes. But the only way to recognize the agenda, cause I'm not even going to say that I think I know what it is, is if we have all the information.