What they know is that if supplies increase then prices will fall. That would be highly unacceptable to the stockholders. Heads would surely roll.
Big oil does not view themselves as "Americans." They see themselves as citizens of the world. The oil companies are ground zero for the implementation of the New World Order and they are willing to accept the short term destruction of the USA in favor of long term prosperity in a world with no borders and therefore no currency exchange rates. In fact, this strategy is forging ahead right on schedule.
How exciting! Who are the Shell people who are “ground zero for the implementation of the New World Order and ... willing to accept the short term destruction of the USA in favor of long term prosperity in a world with no borders and therefore no currency exchange rates” -— maybe I know them and get in on it (I haven’t been retired all that long)?
I never dreamed when I was a U.S. soldier that someday I would give up my citizenship and become a “citizen of the world” by virtue of working for a company, but if you say it is so...
Oil companies don’t make more profit when oil goes up—they make LESS profit per gallon! Taxes far exceed the oil company profit per gal.