[Rodney King]

Since it is your contention that the price of gasoline is completely and artificially controlled by a small cartel of Exxon, Shell, and others - please explain to me why they allowed the price of gasoline to fall today. Do they just feel like not making as much money today as they did yesterday?

[international american]

No outside influences, eh??

[breakem]

Permit one paranoid customer's opinion. The majors will have near record profits for the first quarter. Example, Exxon/Mobil is having the 3rd highest profit of any corporation in the history of the world.

Today is the first day of a new quarter. If they keep up the record profit pace for another quearter there will be a revolt and mucho government regulation proposed in an election year.

They are counting their first quarter, smiling and moving on to normal profit-taking.

[AmericanVictory]

If they were colluding, they would have a strong incentive to drop the price in order to take off the heat, obviously. Your argument makes little difference one way or the other.