[thackney]

Taxes of $318 million per day

[Dilbert San Diego]

I remember Hillary wanted to take their profits and invest it in some clean green energy scam. I guess Obama wants to do the same.

After Porkulus passes, maybe Obama will then go after a politically popular target such as oil companies, and tax the heck out of them. In the minds of the enviro liberal folks, we don’t need oil companies anyway, because our future is all in solar energy and windmills.

[EagleUSA]

Maybe the oil companies should stop selling products for about a month or two —— possibly the attitude of the socialists in Washington would shift a bit and lose some arrogance and operating impunity?

[Mr. Lucky]

They must be punished!

(Dragging them behind a motorcycle over a field of frozen corn stubble comes to mind)

[xjcsa]

Really? If they didn’t pay high taxes their profits would be “evil”?

[jveritas]

ExxonMobile taxes will cover almost 15% of the welfare and pork bill of 2009. Liberals and their non-producer voters should send 116 billion thank you notes to ExxonMobile.

[Walkingfeather]

sales-based taxes, $34.5 billion;

Um..... is this not tax that the consumer pays attached to the price per gallon of gas? If so that is deliberately deceptive.

[newfreep]

I have a liberal gal pal who simply refuses to hear this information when we chat. Liberals are so narrow minded and limit their information gathering to ONLY their wacked-out sources.

[freekitty]

People have no idea how really taxed the oil companies are.

[AmericanMade1776]

Wouldn’t it be fair to say, that all Oil companies have to pay the same tax rate? Doesn’t seem fair that one oil company would be singled out.

[LomanBill]

>>When told the topic of discussion,
>>she immediately denounced Exxon Mobil

 

And yet, though BP outproduces Exxon in the production of American oil, as of 2006, by more than 4 to 1...there's not a peep about BP.

 

Wonder why that is;  Carry, could you please point us to your excellent post describing the funding of the enviro-mentalists?

 

Yep, nothing to see here, move along.

 

 

 

Hey BP GTHOOMC! 'cause WE didn't vote for your monarchies!

[ArrogantBustard]

Voters have been conditioned to hate the energy business in general and Big Oil in particular.

Voters have been conditioned to chase whatever bogeyman or fear whatever bugaboo the miseducated dolts in the MSM (and their foul-minded masters) tell them is Public Enemy #1 (today).

Entirely too many folks ON THIS FORUM display the same pavlovian behaviour.