Then we will all have more money, and guess what…that charity and orginization will still get donations….because when citizens are left with money enough to feel secure, they give! It’s just human nature…..

I don’t think there is any excuse that ANYONE within the oil companies can give that will explain why within 4 months in canada…. we had a fluctuation of over 80 cents at the pump (Per liter), when I noticed the oil prices per barrel…had stayed steady! So who got that influx of cash?

The oil companies, and government are so freaking flawed already that we need a revolution. Democracy works when it’s not a popularity contest. Just look at Obama, how many of his promisses is he actually keeping? He is SENDING more troops into afganistan, instead of pulling 200,000 out. He is AGAINST marijuana legalization now, however during the election, he preached about “Inadiquit Marijuana Laws…”

He pulled the whool over all of the US…. I can actually laugh when I think of that…. because I’m sorry, since he was elected…. nothing has changed. (Wait…the DEA DID stop raids on legal marijuana dispenseries……since those raids were illegal in the end anyways….YAY!!! LETS ALL PRAISE HIM FOR DOING ONE THING…ONE!)

He is a faillure of a president, and only has his skin color working for him at this point!

NOTE: ANything within this post is purely my opinion, based out of facts gleaned over the past. Real life situations, and new reports.

when bush and cheney went in to office i was paying below one dollar per gallon of regular unleaded gasoline. the price is now 3.20 per gallon. between the banks who scraped the cream off the top of the home mortgages and left millions with no home equity… and the oil companiies left to run amuk over the ordinary citizens, the bush/cheney combo has stripped the citizenry of trillions and funneled it into the coffers of the very rich.

that is fact…. and should be criminal

Denial of section 199 benefits for certain major integrated oil companies (freeze current
law section 199 benefits at 6% for oil and natural gas production income of other
taxpayers).

“Denial of section 199 benefits for certain major integrated oil companies” refers to whom? What is the list of “certain major integrated oil companies?”

I work for a medium sized “fossil fuel polluter” and I am here to tell you that we are not the bad guys. We donate countless hours mentoring school children, donating funds for many, many, many support organizations and charities, and not only do we actively participate in environmental projects worldwide, we show an achievement of goals far above the environmental regulations. — but enough of defending the “dragons.”

The second part of that amendment, “freeze current
law section 199 benefits at 6% for oil and natural gas production income of other
taxpayers.” Alot of those taxpayers are the “little people.” I know several widows who supplement their social security with those funds. So if their little pittance is frozen at 6%, what kind of financial support is that? Based on financial planning advise, if you do not get an increase of 3% on your investment in a year, you are losing money because of inflation. So what do you propose they do? Social Security is dwindling away and our retired can not support themselves. Those of us who will be retiring soon, will probably not see any SS and all we have are our investments, of which some are linked to oil and gas production.

People please! Instead of chewing off a paw to get way, open the trap. When are we going to take care of our county? How many foreign countries stepped forward to help us with Katrina and how did it compare to what we do for them? I want to know what would happen if the US took a one year leave of fiancial absence abroad to repair our own budget — just one year!