Windfall Losses - Government Assitance To Come?


	Windfall Losses - Government Assitance To Come?

ColoradoRight

1-30-2009 11:55 AM

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oil, profit, loss, bailout, windfall, government

ColoradoRight says:

No screaming from spittle-flecked leftists about the conspiracy to drive down the price of oil and cause oil companies to lose money.

Don't they deserve a bailout too? Don't be so hard-hearted. What's a couple of billion more when you are already throwing away a trillion.

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