Why trust big oil about drilling lowering prices when they paid scientists to lie on global warming?

[yurbud]

I posted this over at Yahoo Answers:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080826132953AAGeKVA

Exxon even admitted to paying scientists to lie about global warming and promised not to do it any more (but broke their promise).

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/01/oil-lobby-payments/

Other sources on big oil paying for climate change denial scientists:
http://www.watoday.com.au/opinion/who-is-behind-climate-change-deniers-20080802-3ou6.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/feb/02/frontpagenews.climatechange

http://dieoff.org/page82.htm

If they paid people to lie before to protect their profit margins, why don't conservatives believe big oil would do it again on off shore drilling?

Do you think oil companies will use more off shore leases to lower prices for consumers or to maximize their own profits by gradually adding those supplies to keep prices high?

Having a large supply on the market means lower prices for us and more work to make the same or less profit for oil companies. Tight supplies mean oil companies make more profit with far less work.

A classic example of this was before the Iraq War when Oil & Gas Journal worried that after sanctions came of Iraq, Saddam would pump too much oil and drive prices DOWN--unless there was a war.
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2007/03/oil-too-cheap-if-no-iraq-war-says-oil.html

Why do conservatives think big oil is looking out for the best interest of consumers?

[librechik]

1. yes indeed--

and the same logic applies to the phony 9/11/WTC 7 "explanation" NIST put out the other day

Don't trust authority, people--verify!