Way to go Europe!!!
Hmmm..maybe after that ExxonMobil, Chevron, Conocophillips will merge.

http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070703/40057_id.html?.v=1

Ah yes, I see it now. ExxonMobilChevronConocoPhilips has quite a ring to it. Though they might come up with a new, shorter name for the company. Something like Standard Oil perhaps? ;-)

Should unify the command structure for the next resource war:

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/nelson-oil-a-factor-in-iraq-deployment/2007/07/04/1183351291906.html

Because, of course, the Free-Market system encourages many suppliers, so the most efficient supplier will sell at the best price.

Oh, wait, what if the most efficient supplier buys out all the other suppliers.  Hmm, what shall we call that?  Monopoly, anybody?

What happens to our efficient price then?  Oh, wait, Gasoline is $3.00 a gallon in the US.  How did that happen?  Anti-Trust, anybody?

Yeah, this "Blind Trust" in the Free-Market isn't working too well.

> Oh, wait, Gasoline is $3.00 a gallon in the US.

Oh, God, why  have you forsaken me?

Let's invade Iran and jack up oil prices ... yay for our capitalism.

Milton Friedman should have been assfucked hard when he wrote  Capitalism and Democracy.

The natural end-state in capitalism is monopoly, one function of government is to prevent this

I can't believe I'm saying this, but +1 Billx AND Dan.

I thought that already happened... Almost all of our shell stations started becoming BP's about 4-5 years ago.

Here, all the Amoco stations became BP stations.

They did keep Amoco's fuel-system warranty -- if you regularly buy Amoco gas and have a fuel-system failure that was caused by the gas, they'll pick up the tab.