what i really want to know is how much of the fluctuations of the supply/demand and price of gas is related to the tremendous Big Oil profits
i'd really like to believe their profits coincide with the supply/demand, except for the fact that if the supply was really being oustripped relative to demand - as those CEOs claimed - then their profits should either have been declining or stayed stable. [since most oil is foreign, i'm assuming the Big Oil is mostly the middleman distributor?] When the fact is, they not only rose, but they rose tremendously, with record breaking slope.