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Oil Executives to Congress – We Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ $4 Billion Yearly Subsidy

Ezra Grant — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:39:52 +0000

Why exactly are we subsidizing the oil industry by the tune of $4 billion dollars a year, when the oil executives themselves already testified that they don’t need our subsidies. And especially when oil companies are making billions in profits a year, and more especially when prices at the gas pump getting higher by the day? […]

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Republicans Decide to Continue Subsidies to Oil Companies

Ezra Grant — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:41:26 +0000

President Obama said it best – its time to subsidies to these highly profitable oil companies, because “Americans are getting hit twice, one at the gas pump, and once more by sending billions of dollars in tax subsidies to oil companies.” But Republicans will have none if it, as they had an almost unanimous Senate […]

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John Boehner Thinking Like A Democrat On Oil Subsidies

Ezra Grant — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:44:42 +0000

It is a policy that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Giving oil companies billions of taxpayers dollars every year in subsidies, at a time when these same companies are making billions of dollars in profits. And the decision to continue these subsidies depends on what side of the political aisle you’re on. Democrats think the […]

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