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Default Oil chiefs say high prices not our fault

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On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:42:25 -0800, "SteveB"
wrote:

The oil companies make 8 cents a gallon. Various governments tax it over a
dollar a gallon. Do the math, you ****ing genius.



Bull****

http://www.gaspricewatch.com/usgastaxes.asp


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl.../MNU7VU217.DTL



The oil company executives contended that their record profits last year
were in line with other industries, noting that oil and gas companies
earned an average of 8.3 cents per dollar of sales, compared with 7.8
cents per dollar for the Dow Jones average.