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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Up In Smoke" data-source="post: 5408402" data-attributes="member: 79702"><p>Oil companies aren't beholding to anyone but their shareholders.  Why would a company ramp up production only to have their product be worth less?  Capitalism is charging as much as you can for as long as you can.  The consumer will tell you when you've gone too far.  CEOs would have had to take the requests back to the shareholders for a vote.  What shareholder would vote to lose money on purpose?  What's funny is Musk was forced to vote for the sale of Twitter to himself a couple weeks ago or be sued by the remaining shareholders for failing to act in the best interest of Twitter.</p></blockquote><p></p>