LOL! What I don't understand is if some folks really believe this, why would BP need a pretext to withhold oil from the market to raise prices? Just do it.
--why would BP need a pretext to withhold oil from the market to raise prices? Just do it--
Such a bonehead move would only inflame public (and congressional) passions against the oil industry further. The oil industry still has not forgotten the late, great, conservative senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, who suggested back in the 1970s that the oil industry be nationalized. From his lips to Gods ears, as the saying goes. Anyhow, this gives BP a pretext to shut down the pipeline in the name of preventing an oil spill that would harm Mother Earth. Clever!