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An old mistake: why are they trying to punish the oil companies?(PUBLIC POLICY)
THE post-Katrina gasoline-price increase seems to have unleashed madness in some GOP quarters. In a remarkable press conference in late October, House Energy Committee chairman Joe Barton and Speaker Dennis Hastert demanded that the oil industry use its 2005 profits to build new refineries and pipelines--and they threatened the imposition of a windfall-profit tax if the oil industry refused. In the Senate, majority leader Bill Frist launched a public inquisition of the oil sector and is actively encouraging discussions on a windfall-profit tax; he is also recommending a new federal law against gasoline price gouging, and asking the industry to give "voluntary" assistance ...
- Big oil companies prepare to gird loins for lengthy fight on corporate welfare....
- Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily Music, Kimberley September 25, 1996 700+ words
...November elections, and oil companies may be an easy target...activities of big U.S. oil companies. In a report, "Subsidizing Big Oil's Foreign Investments...these subsidies encourage oil companies to work in high-risk...
- Really Big Oil; National oil companies.(Who really controls the world's oil)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 12, 2006 700+ words
...and others speak of "Big Oil", you know exactly...prices even higher). Yet Big Oil is pretty small next...giants: the national oil companies (NOCs) owned or controlled...amount of oil at state oil companies' disposal is not much...
- Slowing Economy Starting to Sap Big Oil.(hurting larger oil companies'...
- Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily August 10, 2001 700+ words
Slowing Economy Starting to Sap Big Oil The slowdown in the global economy is taking its toll on Big Oil. Although one might not realize this...global GDP grew by 4.8%. Even major oil companies' strong second-quarter profits could...
- Robust profits mask problems for Big Oil.(Large integrated oil companies posted...
- Newspaper article from: Petroleum Intelligence Weekly November 10, 2003 700+ words
...commodity prices and oil company profits: Large integrated oil companies posted robust third-quarter profits that were, on average...ago levels (p9). That does not mean smooth sailing for Big Oil. Soaring profits may be masking deeper problems, as several...
- NGOs refine ways to go after big oil.(non-governmental organizations and oil...
- Newspaper article from: Petroleum Intelligence Weekly April 29, 2002 700+ words
...financial ones. Big Oil has learned that...change policy." Oil companies have been waking...inclined to vilify oil companies as "malign forces...entirety." Both Big Oil and the NGOs now...achieved? Mostly, oil companies now recognize the...
- Big oil bilks taxpayers. (oil companies cheat federal government)
- Magazine article from: Multinational Monitor Wheat, Andrew May 1, 1995 700+ words
...POGO). Seven of the largest U.S. oil companies are cheating the federal government...report cited in the study. "These oil companies have already settled for over $350...by the courts at the request of the oil companies who feared 'potentially prejudial...
- Hastert to summon Big Oil to Washington.(Dennis Hastert wants oil companies to...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Zuckman, Jill November 4, 2005 700+ words
...majority party has long been allied with big oil and gas conglomerates, the Democrats...skyrocketing for little reason, called the oil companies and said, `Back off' and they...their side and who's on the side of big oil." (EDITORS: STORY CAN END HERE...
- Make big oil pay for Spanish spill disaster; Oil companies must be made liable...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire November 19, 2002 700+ words
...FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: Make big oil pay for Spanish spill disaster; Oil companies must be made liable says...of the Earth says that oil companies must be made fully liable...has been done to make oil companies still avoid paying for...
