One thing you are forgetting is that that price per barrel includes all those other costs.... It costs the oil companies somewhere around $14/barrel to drill/refine... All the other costs is PART of that other $100 or so... Still there is no way the other costs could add up to that much.... Some of the major oil companies testified in front of congress a few months ago, and one of them said that they could make a sizable profit on $60/barrel.... I'm all for capitalism, but sometimes these people take it too far...