the us wont make oil companies lose money, seeing as they have the rest of the world to supply as well, the states thinks it is the center all the time for oil prices to come down it would need to be a massive government move in multiple countries to expose this quazi monopoly that they all have going with each other and make them start competing again, here in edmonon there is a "oil shortage" but seeing as we have about 30 refineries within 20 minutes of each other, on top of the oilsands in fort mcmurray and under an hour away another 15 refineries I cant see this being a legitamite claim, but every single last station upped its prices by nearly 15 cents a liter over night... kind of strange how every single company raised the prices even with though it was only esso that had the so called problem at one of the refineries here in sherwood park