[El_Phil]

Baron Munchausen said:
Yeah, and what else is new? Corporations learned a long time ago that the best way to make profits is to make the product scarce and then extort the highest possible price from people. The 'Oil Industry' has been shutting down refineries for decades. They haven't built a new one since the 1970s as I recall? Every time some 'accident' closes one of the remaining refineries down for a while, they get to charge huge markups because of the 'tight supply'.

I'd like to think that the evil corporation that would actually deliberately kill lots of people for profit only exists in fiction. Given that quite a few of these refinery accidents do kill people (or get damn close and injure large numbers), I hope they are actually accidents.