Senate voting on a excise tax of oil profits-to go to help with heating

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costs this year.

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1. most dems say yes to amendment -except Laudreu and Lincoln so far.

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3. Dorgan D-ND Amendment. Sen Snowe say NO also!

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6. Landrieu voted NO to tax cuts for Katrina victims, this morning

Go figure.

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9. no, I can not figure her out at all.

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2. Nelson (NE), Lincoln voting NO

Landrieu NO
Cantwell NO
Lieberman YES

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4. Chafee NO as well

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5. what is with Landreu and Lincoln?--this is suppose to help people pay

the high cost of fuel! this winter --heating fuel.

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7. this is terrible--to think that Sens. who can afford to pay heating fuel

will not help those in need this winter@

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8. Pryor NO

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11. only 35 said yes. nays NO--How sad!

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10. Stevens NO - Not exactly a surprise.

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12. Guess Lincoln and Pryor think people won't freeze to death in Arkansas.

However, it was 19 degrees here this morning and I think we rank about 47th. in average income. Nice to see these two DLC'ers are so very concerned about the people back home.

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13. Feinstein amendment to cut tax cuts to oil companies

Democratic NO
Bingaman
Conrad
Levin
Nelson (NE)

There were some YES among the Repubs: Gregg and Sununu at least.

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14. Landrieu NO DeWine AYE Baucus NO

Salazar NO

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15. Does anyone know

what the profit per gallon was? I had a repuke friend of mine email me that their profit per gallon (after all expenses) was about 9 cents, while the taxes (federal, state and local) ranged from 33-62 cents per gallon, depending on the state. I'm trying to find out if this information is accurate, and I'm not sure where to look. I was tempted to check out oil company web pages, but I doubt I'd get accurate information there, just spin. I want to tell my friend he's full of shit (again) but I want some numbers to back it up. I would find it difficult to make the argument that a mere 9 cents per gallon profit on a 2.50-3.00$+ gallon of gasoline is evidence of industry wide gouging.