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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Crude oil can be traded, that doesn't change anything. If BP trades with a another Company - BP is still the one that makes the profit on the traded oil - it's a 1 for 1 trade - equal. It makes no difference who pulled it out of the ground, it only matters when the profits are made.
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Maybe you don't understand what it means.
It is true that you (we) can use less oil (by reducing consumption of petroleum based products), and the lack of demand usually means less revenue to the companies that sell this commodity.
What you cannot do is isolate that effect to BP because oil is a fungible commodity.