Is the government controlled by oil companies?
442780
Does money talk and bullshht walk. Ok there your answer.
378526
Excellent question.  The technology is there, to some degree they are on the market.  My guess is the oil and gas companies will do everything in their power to keep them away from us on a large scale.
1149237
Government does not raise the price of gas.  A thing called supply and demand controls the gas prices and the price of everything else in our society.
1172860
No.\n\nWe want their freakin' oil.
764798
Did the oil companies destroy the environment?  Really?  The environment is destroyed?  Have you been to eastern Europe?  I have, and let me tell you, our environment is not even close to being destroyed.  The environments over there are WAY worse off than they are here, and guess what?  All that destruction was done by their governments under communism (not by 'greedy' companies)!  And who do you think is driving the oil industry anyway?  Everyone who buys fuel, or anything made out of plastic or other oil products, or buys something shipped with oil burning methods is driving it.  You need to learn some basic economics and think about things holistically to see the real forces that drive things.  Good luck with that.\nOur judicial system will never be cleaned up as long as it has so much power.  It is a law of nature that power attracts the corrupt.  If you want a judicial system that is corruption free, you need to drastically reduce its power over the people.  Most people look at government and its branches as a benevolent big brother rather than the necessary evil that great men like Ben Franklin and Jefferson did.  The bigger and more powerful it gets, the more corrupt it will get, period.
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In the United States, the person in charge of petroleum issues is the Secretary of Energy. The current person in that post is Samuel Bodman. He previously served the Bush administration in the Commerce and Treasury Departments.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_W._Bodman\nhttp://www.energy.gov/organization/samuel_bodman.htm\n\nIn the UK, energy policy is set by the Department of Trade and Insustry.  The current Secretary of State for Trade and Industry is Alastair Darling. He has occupied several cabinet positions within the Blair government over the last decade.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Industry\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Darling\n\nIn Canada, energy policy is determined by Natural Resources Canada, which is headed by the Minsiter of Natural Resources.\nThe current Minister is Gary Vincent Lunn. He is an MP from British Columbia.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Resources_Canada\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Lunn
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the oil company reported an all time high profit over 84 million, it is not supply and demand,the irs gave oil companies millions of dollars in tax breaks this year, how many millions of dollars in tax breaks did the working poor or the working middle class recieve, it is who has the highly payed lobbyist , who makes the biggest political contributions and who's interests are being looked after by the current administration which coincidentally includes some oil company investors there is nothing free about this type of democracy
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No, but maintaining the security of the oil supply has been a priority for every administration since cars, trucks and planes became essential to our economy. It would be very foolish not to have this concern, or to allow hostile powers to control too much of the world's oil supply. \n\nThis sort of question is usually asked in reference to the allegation that the current war in Iraq is due to an intention by this administration to control oil. There are several things wrong with this theory. \n1. other countries have high interests in oil supply as well, but they are not involved in the war. For example: prior to this war, the primary customer for Iraqi oil was France. \n2. The US need for oil now is about the same as it has been for some time. This war would have occurred in the 1970s if oil is all it is about. \n3. Controlling oil is an exceptionally simplistic view of the reasons the war occurred. It paints the war in very negative terms having to do with money and greed and corporations, which are reasons much easier to attack than if the war is about more complex issues such as safety, democracy, international politics, etc... \n4. A much more likely reason for the war is that the entire middle east has significant problems which have been spilling out onto other parts of the world for many years. It took a major spillover like 9/11 to push the US to the point where they felt they had to do something.
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The U.S Government has nothing to do with the price of oil.  Oil prices are controled by OPEC. (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) is an International Organization made up of eleven oil producing nations.\n\nOPEC’s mission is to coordinate & unify the petroleum policies of Member Countries & ensure the stabilization of oil prices in order to secure an efficient, economic & regular supply of petroleum to consumers, a steady income to producers & a fair return on capital to those investing in the petroleum industry.\n\nVariations in gasoline prices are not due to differences in crude prices, but to widely varying levels of taxation in the major consuming nations... an example of this would be in Canada where on every litre of gas sold, almost 40% of that goes to the government.
66076
Yes.  The government wesite is below.
196860
Ofcourse there is. The US oil wells are running dry now. Oil companies need to buy new wells and hence look for other geographical locations. Oil is the only reason for wars by US led in the Gulf or Asia.
1062509
Look who's running the country...a bunch of oil freaks.  Everytime the price of oil goes up they are cashing in!  They don't want to come up with alternative fuel sources because there is no money in that for them.
500097
Bcoz those in Government make more money for themselves from oil based products, not in their interests to change
450859
Why? Because it's costs them less money if they get involved. And how? They either make nice with the government with all the oil and do favors for them, or they just crush the government and put a new one there that will sell it to them at a lower price.
318704
Only if you are the country that is sanctioned. over all the world economy is able to absorb enough of the lost produces.  well except when it comes to Oil.
251487
I do agree.  The presence of oil in the middle east has propped up medieval autocratic governments that would have otherwise fallen by the wayside.  The petro-dollars have given these government the means to basically bribe their populations without really serving them.  While some middle-easterners are ridiculously rich, the majority are in abject poverty (that is why Islamic radicalism is becoming so popular).  If you look, you will see that the radical Muslim movements are the most popular in the countries that are trying the hardest to restrict their people.
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You mean like a communist country would? No I live in America.\n-one less thing for the gov to mess up\n-the gov IS in charge of creating energy policy and to date \nthey have not...since GH Bush..and his plan sucked (oil based)\n-replace greedy oil execs with greedy politicians?\nWe have high gas prices because we buy gas guzzling SUV's and live 30 miles from work. IT IS OUR FAULT!!