Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Big oil taking political beating ahead of earnings
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> | Eye-popping profits earn respect on Wall Street but the billions big oil
> | companies reaped in the fourth quarter are raising the wrath of U.S.
> | presidential candidates trying to cater to voters' pocketbooks.
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> | [...]
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> | "If Exxon could generate the same profit margins that Microsoft Corp
> | (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News) does, then Exxon could rule the world," BOSC's
> | Cartwright said.
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>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/080104/oil_politics.html?.v=2
Big companies in the UK that take too much money out of the public
through monopolistic means normally face a windfall tax.
Its legal way to disperse
the wealth concentration that isn't good for the customer.
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