How do the oil companies get to OBVIOUSLY rip off the public and get away with it?

Well..being the obviously ultra right wing conservative that I am often portrayed to be :) I'd have to say......

Our Government seems idiologically committed to 'market forces' but those forces often don't work until companies are SHAMED into reacting to them.

Also, its not hard to have an 'understanding' among the oil companies which amounts to undocumented collusion over pricing cycles.

This is another aspect of 'Capitalism' as an economic force which demonstrates how it benefits very limited and selfish socio/economic interests, rather than, and at the expense of, the broarder community.

StD... we can organize a few 10-teams to shame an oil company office if you like....but you would have to participate yourself.

The price of petrol is in the hands of consumers. Floggers of any product will charge what the market will take.

All consumers have to do is stop buying!

Unfortunately, people who could do without their cars for getting to work, insist on driving one up along well served public transport routes every day of the week. Many of them drive big gas guzzlers.

We are ripped off by oil companies because we allow them to rip us off. People seem to have lost the ability to think and act for themselves, preferring to blame the government for their problems when the solution is in their own hands.

The debate goes on?
Why do people buy gas guzzling V8's and four wheel drives, then complain that the price of petrol is too much.
The hipocrites who fill up twice a week,kill the atmosphere and drive the kids to school are the same people that want the government or the oil companies to subsidise their unsustanable life styles.
The rational argument is to allow oil companies and the federal government to make as much profit from private car and four wheel drivers and allow tax breaks on oil prices for heavy transport road and rail operators.
This would reduce green house emmissions while supporting the use of public transport,and reducing the cost of shipping products to supermarkets,etc.

Filling up twice a week is a crime? can you think outside your own world and your own reality?
Some of us use far more fuel than that, just to go shopping this after all is a very big country.
Growing your food ,makeing your power are not fuel free endevors.
And your post takes the spotlight away from fuel price theft and neglect of duty by our goverment and the multi national fuel owners.
In time to come we will look back at the sloth like goverments refusal to truely investigate new fuels as what it is betrayal.

Quote Belly: "And your post takes the spotlight away from fuel price theft and neglect of duty by our goverment and the multi national fuel owners."

Thankyou.

It blows my mind that the Government and the ACCC won't do anything about it...Corruption of the highest order?