What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Oil Companies?

Question

I think of greed and corruption.

Imagine if any other industry wanted to raise the average price of its product by 50-75% in one year and they accomplish this without a whisper from the public.
They did this by inflating gas pricess up to 200% before "calming" everyone by lowering the rate to only a 75% increase from the year before.

Sick and corrupt.

I also always think of that fat guy from exxon with the thirty chins telling his board members that they turned the largest profit % in the history of the company.

acid boy.

thats redundant and in some circles consider stupid, you know answering the question with the same thing that is being asked. but thanks for your answer.

"describe water? its watery" - not very bright, Don't you think?

Answer 1

The first thing that comes to mind is GREED!
Cheney, Bush & Company tell us that oil is a commodity and pricing is controlled by the world's demand and other market conditions.
It seems obvious to me that gasoline prices have been deliberately manipulated by the oil companies and the Bush administration so that Cheney and his friends can get richer and richer and richer. Cheney is a former oilman who took a fledgling company called Halliburton and turned it into one of America's biggest government contractors (and from which he still receives royalties today). The military-industrial complex wants 'war' to maintain its extraordinary profitability, and Cheney engineered a 'war' in Iraq that helped boost those profits. Is it all just a series of coincidences?
When have oil prices changed daily (sometimes hourly) until the Cheney administration held American motorists hostage and forced us to pay more at the pump? It's a shell game: when gasoline reached $3.00 a gallon, we screamed bloody murder. But the Cheney-Bush administration cooperated with the oil companies to keep gasoline prices artificially high, allowing oil companies to reap obscene profits. Then, once prices came down to $2.25 per gallon, we were all happy and content, failing to remember that less than a year ago gasoline sold for under $1.50 a gallon in most regions of the country.
We've been duped by the Bush administration, Congress, and the giant oil companies. Why couldn't the oil companies have cut their profit margins in order to keep gasoline prices from soaring above $3.00 a gallon? GREED! Sheer avarice.
PREDICTION: There will be no troop withdrawals from Iraq until Cheney has a rock-solid, iron clad arrangement in place to suck up all of Iraq's OIL. We will NOT leave Iraq for decades; if that's not the case, why is the U.S.A. building the largest embassy in the world on a 104-acre site in downtown Baghdad overlooking the modest headquarters of the "new" Iraqi government?
PREDICTION: By spring, 2007 (or as soon as the Bush handlers can come up with a plausible excuse that most conservative ditto heads will 'buy') the U.S will invade Iran for the very same reason: rich fields of easily-accessible OIL.
PREDICTION: If the Republicans manage to retain control of Congress after the mid-term elections, gasoline prices will SOAR to over $4.00 a gallon in this country to allow the big oil companies to recapture some of the extravagant profits they 'lost' by pricing their product lower in an effort to help the GOP retain its stranglehold on power.
PREDICTION: If it looks like a Democratic landslide in 2008, the nameless, faceless people who really control this country (big business, special interest groups, wealthy elitists, and oil companies) will help the Cheney-Bush administration (Cheney is the brains behind this administration; Bush is just a dimwitted patsy who's told what to say, how to act, and what to do) plan and execute yet another 'terrorist' attack on U.S. soil (this time it will be in the Midwest). Then, they will order Bush to declare martial law, claiming that a change in administrations would not be in the best interests of 'national security'. That will give them time to groom Jeb Bush for a run at the Presidency in 2012.
The Bush dynasty is directly tied to the Saudi Arabian family fortunes, and has links to China as well. When George H.W. Bush left office, he joined the Carlyle Group, which is today one of America's leading government contractors - AND - in which $2.5 million has been invested by a Saudi family named binLaden.
Is anyone dumb enough to believe this is all just coincidence?
I challenge you to print this out and keep it on file just to see if any of my predictions turn out to be accurate. -RKO-

Answer 2

I think they will be too busy investigating the Bush Administration to worry about the oil companies right away. The Democrat solution to high gas prices will be the same one they proposed at the height of last summer. Raise taxes on oil companies. Now how this would be considered as a deterrent to already high prices is beyond me, but apparently it makes some sense to them. However, if Democrats do decide to investigate oil companies, I hope they at least put the CEOs under oath this time, unlike the last Republican hearings on the matter. I don't have a problem with investigating the oil companies. I don't know if price gouging occured or if was truly supply and demand at work, but one thing is for sure, a new tax is not the answer. I do not know why people do not understand this one basic concept. If you raise taxes on businesses they will not just absorb the hit to their profit margin. The cost gets passed along to the consumer in the form of even more higher prices.

Answer 3

some people seem to forget that the U.S. is not a O.P.E.C. nation and that opec controls the flow oil in the world market there for bush and hes cronies really dint have any control over oil or the price of gas. The say if we were all not to buy gas for 1 day out of the month this country's dependence on foreign oil would drop significantly, but yet i see the same people that complain about the price of gas still drive that sports car or the SUV that never goes off the pavement. After the first gulf war the price of oil collapsed and alot of these companies were losing money and the gov. did nothing for them to bail them out ( who would) but now that they are making money had over fist we all complain. No only that but the U.S. has not built a new refinery in over 20 yr because the environmentalist wackos make it impossible for them. Oh yeah cant for get how much we get taxed for each gallon of gas. So its not just on groups fault that we all pay through the nose for gas its all of are fault. Anyone who drives a car should try to limit their driving and conserve. Oh wait that means that YOU actually have to do something not just talk about it.

Answer 4

I tend to think of vast profit and environmental damage.
The prices charged for fuel are ridiculous, I mean almost £1 for a litre of the stuff!!! Liquid gold would probably be cheaper lol. They have got a stranglehold on the market and they know it.
I know the oil companies have got on the green bandwagon recently but they are not doing enough to protect the flora and fauna from the product that gives them such fat profits.

Answer 5

I can't help but think about G W Bush and him trying to manipulating our votes with his gas price hike and then dropping the cost back down so that the American public will be greatful to him and say "wow look at what the Predisent is doing for us"...When he was the one to raise the price in the first place. When I think of Oil Companies I think of our rotten President...

Answer 6

Well, it's a limited resource the demand for which is steadily increasing throughout the world. Most of this resource is owned and controlled by our avowed enemies or countries with whom we have an uneasy co-dependent relationship. It contributes to global warming, and its lobbyists have kept the development of alternative technologies back because of their huge profit stake in oil. It helps that they have a bunch of Texas oil boys in the White House who conduct secret meetings with industry heads to write energy policy. All in all, not a pretty picture.

Answer 7

Yes, I think of that Exxon CEO with the 400M (?) severance package that he looks like he's melting into the floor.

Sick and corrupt may be an understatement - they actually suppress competing technologies for profit! Global warming bad guys!

Answer 8

The rich is getting richer,gas prices should stay
at .99 cents to $1.30.

Answer 9

The Bullshit & Saudi Royal families.

Answer 10

I think of the people who help make a paycheck possible for me.