Oil Tycoons to testify in Washington

[legalmania]

The big wigs at BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell and Conoco are all claiming that it's not fair that they are being asked to not take a tax break. While many America's are taking pay cuts, these greedy executives continue to profit. BP has a lot of nerve, to profit on anything when the people of Louisiana are still suffering from the disaster they caused.

Thursday's marquee hearing featured the chief excutives of Shell Oil Co., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP America and Chevron Corp., five companies that booked profits totaling $36 billion during the first quarter. The Democrats say that with profits that high, the big oil companies wouldn't miss tax breaks that average $2 billion a year.

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[Danaya]

Will these dingbats cut their million dollar salary in half and use that instead? Suck it up. buttercups. Honestly. Are they for real? I guess greed really is a disease, isn't it.

 

[legalmania]

Americans need to start doing what we can to get off of fossil fuels. Right now it seems impossible, but I hope that within the next ten years cars will not use gas anymore, which scares the heck out of these greedy tycoons. We can run cars on solar I have seen it. The way technology is advancing it will happen.