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3. We get the socialized environmental risk...they get the profits.

Tue Feb 21, 2012, 09:29 AM

Feb 2012

And the Republicans get Big Oil's political investment.

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We subsidize the oil companies and... [View all] SHRED Feb 2012 OP

and in the context of Keystone XL Pipeline... handmade34 Feb 2012 #1

We get the socialized environmental risk...they get the profits. Old and In the Way Feb 2012 #3

one of the most important handmade34 Feb 2012 #4

We should send Big Oil a bill every year for about 1/3 of the Defense Budget. Old and In the Way Feb 2012 #5

You'd think that little factoid would get mentioned in the popular media gratuitous Feb 2012 #17

They don't call themselve's CONservatives for nothing. Old and In the Way Feb 2012 #2

I'm sorry, but this just seems like basic economic ignorance Spider Jerusalem Feb 2012 #6

Then at least the US should be TAXING the oil as it "flows thru" Vincardog Feb 2012 #7

The refiners are already taxed. Spider Jerusalem Feb 2012 #8

Oil's going to be refined anyway, like it or not Spider Jerusalem Feb 2012 #10

It won't decrease the amount available, for a start Spider Jerusalem Feb 2012 #12

It doesn't decrease the amount available. Spider Jerusalem Feb 2012 #14

Sure it is Spider Jerusalem Feb 2012 #16