how do futures work?

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    Sorry to be a pain with such a basic question , but I cannot understand this. In order to buy a futures price, on say oil, how does one make $. Who do you sell the future price to? It's not a company, & you can't take barrells of oil home. I'm miffed. lol!
 
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