If the U.S. ever gets control of Mid-East oil reserves, do you think we'll pay less at the gas pumps?

Dream on.If the U.S. ever gets control of Mid-East oil reserves, do you think we'll pay less at the gas pumps?
absolutly not, getting control of the reserves would create more of a monopoly on it, and thus the governments and wealthy owners could create artificial scarcity.





we would have to pay more taxes too to fund the occupation of the military required to protect the oil infrastructure from those who were robbed of it, who won't take it lying down.





of course it is the corporations who wanted it in the first place and it is they who should pay for it all not the taxpayers. But he who has the guns can do what they want, makes me think of loan sharks or the mafia.





RRRRIf the U.S. ever gets control of Mid-East oil reserves, do you think we'll pay less at the gas pumps?
Nope.$3 a gallon and up is here to stay.
The ignorance on this thread is absolutely stunning. The answer is a little, but primarily because production capacity is already maxed out.
I'm sure the Oil Mafia will cut us a deal.
no we will probably pay more. where I live we are at 3.29 and it is suppose to go up again
No. We're passed peak oil and two oil men are in the white house. Neither party in Congress has any ideas except how to get re-elected.
no because the guys in charge would still claim they didn't have control and then there is always that slippery supp;y ans demand thing with not enough refineries and no new ones it is too easy to manipulate supply and the fore price.
No it is the oil companies gouging the people and that will not change.
NOPE! those prices are here to stay. And stop blaming the Reps...the dems are just as deep into mid-east oil as the reps are.
No. All control goes through the oil companies and they are not willingly going to do anything to adversely affect their profits.