And fossil fuels and their companies are not monolithic and should be treated as such

Monolithic no, monopolistic yes

yah the people who are against nuclear are typically the same sort of alarmists, they think that it is dangerous or some such.

I'm pretty sure that there are a bunch of competing companies for oil and coal

I dunno what you mean by monopolistic there

This isn't exactly he age of rockefeller

I'm all for nuclear. We've figured out thorium. It doesn't try to kill us for breathing

I dunno why people think uranium or plutonium is bad

the only real nuclear disaster I can think of was Chernobyl, and I'm pretty sure there are a dozen reasons why that would never happen again.

They're fine

No need to use other fuels

There were several others that were almost a disaster.

Oligopolies are essentially monopolies with loopholes. I'll treat them the same until they start acting different

I don't know what you're asking for here

There are only so many sites to obtain these resources

And thus there can only be so many extraction companies

it's also rather capital-intensive to get started, especially with the regulations such as they are.

No, there's only so many sites that have been established for extraction. It's expensive set up and therefore restrictive to market entry

A lot of businesses are capital intensive

And so what?

That's most industries nowadays

Hard for non established companies to gain a foothold

Fossil fuel is hardly unique in that regard

Actual oil supplies are quite healthy, it's just only pulled out of the ground at a certain rate to control the market

like any other market.

Not to mention gas goes bad so theres no reason to stockpile it ..

but if you can drill for it cheaper then your competition you will sell it cheaper, because you still get the same percentage back but are producing more.
Thereby making you more money.

There's no risk in stockpiling crude, but processing it all at once is a waste yes

Though plenty of businesses have learned to throttle their profit for tax reasons.

Stockpiling carries risks of its own, when it's in the ground is it effectively stockpiled.

@randomNPCno3 there are environmental concerns

With stockpiling crude

Since when does a corporation care?

Likewise there re environmental concerns with extracting oil too quickly

I think the EPA cares

Not a corporation

Just a watchdog

And if you produce too much eventually the well runs out

Companies prefer stable income

Not income that rises and falls rapudly

The wells refill over time