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From: alfredstomacker@gmail.com
On 26 Apr 2011 00:51:06 +0100, Another TeaFaggot On Welfare
wrote:
>Foreign Owned Shell Loses $ 4.4 Billion - Lazy, Cheap US Rightists Refuse
>To Pass The Hat, Demand Another Bush-style Bail Out
>
>Boehner: Oil Companies Share Blame for Gas Prices, Open to Cutting
>Subsidies
>
>At a time of skyrocketing gas prices and near-record profits for oil
>companies, House Speaker John Boehner made a major concession today:
>Congress should consider cutting multi-billion dollar subsidies to oil
>companies.
>
>"Everybody wants to go after the oil companies and, frankly, they've got
>some part of this to blame," the Ohio Republican told ABC News today.
>
>Blame aside, what about the cold, hard cash -- the billions of dollars in
>tax breaks and other subsidies big oil receives every year? President
>Obama has proposed doing away with many of them, which he says would save
>$45 billion over the next 10 years.
>
>"It's certainly something we should be looking at," Boehner said. "We're
>in a time when the federal government's short on revenues. They ought to
>be paying their fair share."
>
>That is a departure for the speaker on an issue that Republicans have long
>defended as necessary to encourage domestic oil production.
>
>
>"I think if we began to allow-- more permits for oil and gas production it
>would send a signal to the market that America's serious about moving
>toward energy independence. That signal, in and of itself-- would-- would
>calm these prices down quite a bit," Boehner said.
>
>The speaker said that while he wanted to "take a look" at oil subsidies.
>He also wanted to "see all the facts" first.
>
>"I don't want to hear a bunch of political rhetoric," Boehner said. "I
>want to know what impact this is going have on job creation here in
>America."
>
>Boehner made his comments in a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with ABC
>News as he toured the Innovative Labeling Solutions factory in Hamilton,
>Ohio, and Rebco Inc. in Greenville, Ohio, which designs and builds
>commercial agriculture equipment.
>
>When asked who the American people should blame for high gas prices,
>Boehner pointed the finger at Obama.
>
>"They're going to blame somebody, all right. And the fact is he has done
>nothing to help the situation," Boehner said.
>
>Boehner said high gas prices, more than anything else, are likely to cost
>Obama re-election in 2012.
>
>"Who knows," Boehner said, when asked if Obama could win in 2012. "But if
>the economy doesn't get better, I don't think he'll win. If people don't
>feel better about government-run health care, I don't think he'll win. And
>if gas prices are $5 or $6, he certainly isn't going to win."
>
>An ABC News/Washington Post poll released today suggests Boehner may be
>right: With gas up 25 percent this year to an average $3.84 a gallon,
>seven in 10 Americans in this poll report financial hardship as a result,
>and Obama's ratings are suffering.
>
>In re-election terms, 53 percent of those who are feeling serious hardship
>as a result of gas prices said they would definitely not vote for Obama in
>2012.
>
>http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/boehner-gas-prices-cost-obama-election-
>cutting-oil/story?id=13451597
in a related story Obama denied Shell a permit to drill for billions
of barrels off the coast of Alaska further putting his point across
that he is against American independence of foreign oil .
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