I mean I own a lot of Exxon stock both my own and inherited. I was thinking, how about if Exxon asks to drill in Alaska, they get told no. Fine, they then refuse to sell gasoline or oil to anyone in the state of the people who vote against them. Get the other oil companies to join them. I bet in about 5 days the people would lynch their elected leaders and the drills would be working just fine.
Your thoughts?
I still don’t know why they put up with the BS congress and Senate have been giving them.. I’d have told them to F O .
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:12 pm
They won’t.
Love Jack
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December 3rd, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Oil companies are all about making money and their shareholders would lynch their execs if they refused to sell oil to buyers. Also remember, they’re not actually interested in drilling more oil. They want control over more public land.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Interesting that their story for high prices changes every time you ask them. Seems to me that if they were truly being abused, they would stick to one story.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 9:03 pm
It would never happen. Turning away all that profit from the coastal states?
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December 3rd, 2009 at 9:44 pm
I still don’t know why they put up with the BS congress and Senate have been giving them.. I’d have told them to F O .
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December 3rd, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Scapegoating is lucrative, it hasN’T hurt them so far, has it? It has been nothing but good to them so far
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December 3rd, 2009 at 10:51 pm
They are a business. The only thing that matters to a business is $$. They would never do anything that would cost them money because money is the companies life blood.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Count your prayers, I sure Jesus cares about your oil stock. Blood money
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December 3rd, 2009 at 11:46 pm
scapegoat all the way to the bank…..I doubt they care as long as profit is high…
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December 4th, 2009 at 12:11 am
I don’t understand how the oil companies are a "scapegoat."
They are raking in record profits by charging us $4 for gas.
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December 4th, 2009 at 12:41 am
WHY WOULD THEY ?? THE DOLLARS KEEP COMING IN AND THIS IS ALL WHICH COUNTS
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:05 am
That would work only up to the point that it remains profitable, are you willing to lose money.
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:38 am
Well alright – so do I understand correctly that you are at least comfortably well off ?
How special.
Gee I think dope dealers feel the same way -they have control of the junkies and threaten to cut them off.
But perhaps the US would then get on the ball and fund better energy sources.
You never know.
Obama-08
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:49 am
the oil and gas that Exxon "has" is not "theirs" – we all granted them drilling rights on public lands, or on their private land, given the circumstance that they process the oil and put it back into the economy
we’ve all, taxpayers, given the oil companies billions if not trillions of dollars already – hedging bets on their output
now you’re asking what if they refuse to withhold their end of the bargain?
I would hope they’d end up in hard-time prison just like any other traitor.
for someone so linked to the oil business you sure have a distorted view of the process and its ideals
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December 4th, 2009 at 2:12 am
Exxon doesn’t sell gasoline to consumers – it sells it to service stations who sell it to consumers. If Exxon did not sell their gas someplace, some other company would. Then Exxon’s shareholders would oust the idiot executives who made that stupid decision.
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