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Most of you can remember when K-Mart and Sears were the leading retailers, then along came Sam Walton and he cut their prices and they all laugh, needless to say, Wal-Mart out took them all to become one of the largest retailers of all time.

So what I am getting at the four largest oil companies in the US is,

Exxon, Shell, Chevron and Conoco, what if everyone bought from say "Shell", i.e. and not the others, someone is going to have to lower their prices. It's called back in the old days "gas wars". But then again how can this get out to all of the citizens of the US, is the problem.
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Americans are getting an education in the realities of oil production and, more importantly, commodities speculation. Much of the price rise is due to speculation, most of the oil companies must buy some the oil they refine on the world market.

That said, oil, like cash is fungible. The refineries sell to who need the fuel. If you buy all of you oil from shell -- you may be getting it from an Exxon refinery or vica versa.

Here is a list of the 17 largest oil companies in the world. Please note that the largest US company, ExxonMobil, is only the 17th largest in the world.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:0JnsRGIyHTwJ:www.p...n&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

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