>>Maybe the oil companies should stop selling products for about a month or two
That would merely give Comrade Chairman & Co. an excuse to nationalize the industry.
Problem is, his, and that of the Oil industry, are merely different facades over the same beast - the exploitation of human collectivist nature.
Corporatism==Collectivism==Communism
All of which were precisely what the folks who wrote "TO SECURE THESE [individual] RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" were intent upon protecting the INDIVIDUAL from.
Tyranny of the appetite.