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Topic: I just figured out that the oil companies profit by being unsafe.
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Ashitaka
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posted January 10, 2011 13:15
The alaskan pipeline is operating at half of it's normal output because of a small spill at a pumping station.
The price per barrel of oil is up 1% today because of that ( see above link).
The three owners of the alaskan pipeline are Exxon/Mobile, BP and connoco-phillips.
Assuming that the oil companies increase their prices of gasoline to compansate for the increase in crude oil price ...
Exxon makes 2.3 million barrels of oil per day. The price of oil is 88.93 USD per barrel instead of 88.03 USD per barrel, a 90 cent increase.
Exxon/Mobile is making an extra 2 million dollars a day because of this accident (assuming the sell 2.3 million barrels per day and assuming that they don't have much increased costs because of this accident. Since it is small, I think we can assum that.)
Assuming Conocophillps sells 1.59 million barrels per day, they are reaping a profit of 1.4 million USD per day.
BP, who also prodces ca 2.3 million barrels per day is reaping a profit of also ca 2 million per day.
All because they spilled a littl oil.
And now think about all the other oil companies, who did nothing, and are reaping huge profits, bcasue the oil price is going up, bcause of this spill.
I tll you, it pay good money to be sloppy with oil.
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TheMoMan
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posted January 10, 2011 15:13
____ I'm glad that you have become enlightened, but not only by creating their own shortages they get tax breaks (Oil Depletion Allowance) for the oil pumped out of the ground, so oil spilled still gets the tax break.
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dragonman97
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posted January 10, 2011 17:51
Color me stupid, but I thought we got most of our oil from overseas...
(It's always galled me that we seem to sell our oil to other countries, and then buy ours from people who hate us. [But the economists say it makes sense!!!])
As such, it seems like nothing short of racketeering that something that shouldn't directly affect much of our market...affects the whole damn country. I just filled up this morning at $3.329/gal. The local rag has pointed out that this is the first winter that prices have remained over $3. *sigh* I'm relatively certain that crude from Alaska isn't being trekked across the country to reach us in NY -- it's most likely coming in from a ship via NJ. Let's ditch the SUVs, improve mass transit, and end the damn wars. </leftie_pinko_commie?>
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