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Old 12-29-2009, 10:25 PM
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The government regulates the oil companies. They tax them when they produce it, then they tax us when we buy it.

Chas
The government gives the oil companies a virtual free ride with tax breaks and the "Oil Depletion Allowance", allowing them to drill on public land. The most profitable corporations in the history of the world receiving corporate welfare! It's virtually criminal.

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