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Originally Posted by Billyk
To think that the individual gasoline stations are making a killing -major brand name or not--is not true. There is very little profit margin for owners of the gasoline stations. Mark Smith (poster on this site) use to sell gasoline with his professional auto mechanic service and got out because the profit margin was something like .03%  .
As for big oil swallowing up ethanol production--you better let our GPSman1 reply to that as he is in the business. 
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Ooops. Sorry, but that was my point concerning the owners of gas stations. They got screwed over.
As to Big Oil - it can do it. It can by the small producers, and/or form alliances with, for example, ADM.
The tendency, which T. Roosevelt probably understood better than most people in the the govt is to exploit their size.
Big Oil, for example owns the infrastructure. Can ADM build a nationwide infrastructure?