Wow, I didn't know we had such a bunch of conspiracy theorists. Yes, oil companies are making money...its called business...they are in the business of selling gasoline and making money. They are going to try to make the most money by matching price with demand. America wants oil prices to go down? How about using less gasoline? Try driving economical cars instead of useless trucks, SUVs, and 500 hp Mustangs...
Oil companies aren't going to maximize profits by just jacking up prices whenever they damn well feel like, they have to take demand into consideration. considering its spring and people are driving more...demand is going up but supply is staying the same. Proof that refineries are not keeping up? Right now in Colorado we have a gasoline shortage. Our on base gas station had to shut down for a day because there wasn't any gas in the state. We had to go out of state to find gasoline. How is that the big bad oil companies fault? They want to sell gasoline to us just as much as we want to buy it.
Everybody likes to bitch about the price of gasoline, but nobody wants to do what it takes to decrease our consumption, including me, but I don't bitch.
And if you think George Bush is any more greedy or corrupt than the next politician, you are sadly mistaken. The news media just likes to point it out more and present all these theories that they call "news"
Any which way, I don't surf stangnet to argue politics. I made my point and I'm done with this thread.