If they were willing to give back all of their profit and operate as a non-profit charity it would only drop the price of gas 2 or 3 cents a gallon.
Oil company profits are a red herring.
If we wanted to do something that would significantly reduce the price of oil we would pull all of our troops out of Iraq. The "risk premium" that is built into the price of oil is around 30%.
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