Rachel Maddow: The GOP defends big oil subsidies... again

democracy1st

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Thu May-12-11 05:08 AM
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Rachel Maddow: The GOP defends big oil subsidies... again

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDHSghxy2po

Posted on YouTube: May 06, 2011
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Posted on DU: May 12, 2011
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Rachel Maddow explains how the House Republicans have once again voted to protect taxpayer subsidies to big oil, the most profitable industry in human history. From the May 5th, 2011 edition of The Rachel Maddow Show.

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izquierdista

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Thu May-12-11 09:02 AM
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1. Wrong, wrong, wrong

Tying the price of oil to "9/11" is just plain dumb. The volatility starts picking up two years earlier, and a better cause and effect argument can be made that it was due to Phil Gramm playing Santa Claus for all the traders and speculators with his commodity deregulation bill.

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