Big Oil Spends $ on Shareholders, not Exploration


	Big Oil Spends $ on Shareholders, not Exploration

Wisco

7-23-2008 3:53 PM

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If the price of oil is really a supply-and-demand problem, as the Bush admin. asserts, then Big Oil isn't doing much to increase the supply.

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