Is today's House hearing on Big Oil profits being

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Thu May-22-08 11:08 AM
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Is today's House hearing on Big Oil profits being

streamed anywhere? Is it already going because I can't find it and don't see a thread for it here?

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rateyes

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Thu May-22-08 11:18 AM
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1. what committee?

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Thu May-22-08 11:23 AM
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2. I like to remind

people to read my sig line if they don't know how I feel about the subject.

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rateyes

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Thu May-22-08 11:26 AM
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3. It started at 11:00 and it looks like they are taking a break but,

go here, and follow the link to "live webcast."

http://judiciary.house.gov/

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Thu May-22-08 11:27 AM
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4. Here's the Info about it...

Edited on Thu May-22-08 11:31 AM by Breeze54

WEEK OF MAY 19, 2008

http://judiciary.senate.gov/schedule.cfm

Look for it in the schedule and then click on title.

"--ROOM CHANGE--Exploring the Skyrocketing Price of Oil "
Senate Judiciary Committee
Full Committee

Click for WEBCAST

10:00 am

Judiciary

Hearings to examine the skyrocketing price of oil.

SD-226 <<<<--- OR: You can click on the room number to watch it when there is a hearing @ http://www.capitolhearings.org/

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Looks like it's over already. I don't see anything for today.

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Thu May-22-08 11:41 AM
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5. Thanks. Edited: Hearing on now.. n/t

Edited on Thu May-22-08 11:49 AM by Texas Explorer

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Thu May-22-08 11:42 AM
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6. It's on NOW !!!

Edited on Thu May-22-08 11:43 AM by Breeze54

Here.... http://judiciary.house.gov/

Thursday 05/22/2008 - 11:00 AM
2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Judiciary Committee Antitrust Task Force

Hearing on: Retail Gas Prices, Part 2: Competition in the Oil Industry

Click the Webcast button. ;)

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I gave you the Senate hearings but this is a House hearing.

Sorry about that.

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Thu May-22-08 11:49 AM
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8. Yea, thanks Breeze. It finally loaded in my player. Watching now. n/t

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rateyes

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Thu May-22-08 12:46 PM
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13. You are watching yesterday's Senate hearing,

not today's House hearing.

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Thu May-22-08 11:46 AM
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7. Oil CEO: "We will require HUGE amounts of capital to continue to provide... oil"

:grr:

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Initech

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Thu May-22-08 11:51 AM
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9. Exactly why oil should be nationalized.

Fuck these CEO dipshits. Seriously.

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Thu May-22-08 11:53 AM
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10. I never thought of that but aren't we, sort of, national now, in a

round about way, with all the leases and subsidies to the companies that do the actual drilling?

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Thu May-22-08 12:09 PM
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12. Not when you consider the record profits that these companies have been making.

Exxon Mobil - $11 BILLION ($46 BILLION last year)

Conoco Philips - $7 BILLION

British Petroleum - $5.5 BILLION

Shell - $4 BILLION

We should be kicking their asses to the curb. Nationalizing oil would eliminate the middle man.

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Breeze54

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Thu May-22-08 11:58 AM
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11. Did you just hear that asshole?!?

Paraphrasing: 'Do NOT treat us as scapegoats but as assest and in like raising our taxes, reducing subsidies or things like that. We've been there before anf jobs were lost and prices went up and production went down.'

:wtf:

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