Big Oil Subsidies

Top 10 Dirty Corporate Tax Dodgers of 2011

Rebecca Tarbotton | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Taxes, Rainforest Action Network, Bank of America, Chevron, Corporations, Corporate Tax Rate, Oil Subsidies, Big Oil Subsidies, Corporate Tax Breaks, Corporate Greed, Green News

Bottom-line, these dirty corporations don't need any more handouts, bailouts, or subsidies. Our country does not have a money problem; it has a priorities problem.

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Payola for the Most Profitable Corporations in History

Bill McKibben | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Oil Prices, Obama Oil, Oil Industry, Big Oil, Oil Tax Breaks, Oil Subsidies, Big Oil Subsidies, Obama Oil Subsidies, Obama Oil Prices, Green News

There's a problem: the very word "subsidies" makes American eyes glaze over. If due attention is to be paid, we have to figure out a language in which to talk about them that will make it clear just how loony our policy is.

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A New Energy Third World in North America?

Michael T. Klare | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Tar Sands, Tar Sands Action, Big Oil, Keystone XL Pipeline, Big Oil Subsidies, Keystone XL, Big Oil Profits, North American Oil, Deep Sea Oil Drilling, Gas Prices, Big Oil Alaska, Oil North America, Green News

Will the oil curse become as familiar on this continent in the wake of a new American energy rush as it is in Africa and elsewhere? Will North America, that is, become not just the next boom continent for energy bonanzas, but a new energy Third World?

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Senate Rebuffs President Obama On Oil

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Ending Oil Subsidies, Video, Mitch McConnell, Big Oil, Oil Subsidies, Senate Oil, Big Oil Subsidies, MItch McConnell Oil Subsidies, Senate Oil Subsidies, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama called on Congress to stop taxpayer-funded subsidies for oil companies, and the Senate promptly ignored him Thurs...

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Democrats Campaign Off Oil Subsidy Debate

The Huffington Post | Michael McAuliff | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Video, Dscc, Election 2012 Blog, Bob Menendez Oil Subsidies, Bob Menendez, Oil Subsidies, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Oil, Elections 2012, Big Oil Subsidies, Politics News

Democrats are taking their oil debate off the Senate floor and onto the campaign trail this week, launching a series of online ads and a petition targ...

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GOP Smells Gas Price Victory, Votes To Debate Big Oil Subsidies

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Obama Gas Prices, High Gas Prices, Gas Prices, Mitch McConnell, Bob Menendez Oil Subsidies, Big Oil, Bob Menendez, Oil Subsidies, Big Oil Subsidies, MItch McConnell Oil Subsidies, Robert Menendez, Republicans Oil Subsidies, Mitch McConnell Gas Prices, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- With Republicans relentlessly blaming President Barack Obama for high gas prices, Democrats tried a different tactic Monday, offering le...

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We Ain't Broke, So Let's Fix It

Michael Brune | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Clean Energy, Keystone XL Pipeline, Oil Subsidies, Economy Green Energy, Green Jobs, Story of Stuff, Energy Economy, Big Oil Subsidies, Politics Campaign Finance, Story of Broke, Politics Energy, Green News

The United States is still the wealthiest nation in the world -- we're far from broke. What's broken, though, is the way we allocate our considerable national resources. That's the message of The Story of Broke.

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Recession? What Recession? Oil Profits Boom Amid The Gloom

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Bp, Gas Prices, High Gas Prices, Stock Buybacks, Big Oil, Conocophillips, Oil Subsidies, Exxon Mobil, Big Oil Subsidies, Chevron, Big Oil Profits, Shell, Oil Industry Profits, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The sputtering economy, high unemployment rate and punishing gas prices are taking a huge toll on average Americans, but at least somebo...

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Don't Sacrifice Our Future

Deborah Weinstein | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Deficit, Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Debt Ceiling, Budget Cuts, Kent Conrad, Budget, Big Oil Subsidies, Deficit Reduction, David Stockman, WIC Cuts, Medicaid Cuts, Politics News

It comes down to this: Is it more important for millionaires to have all of their tax breaks preserved or for Gail to have her life saved by Medicaid?

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There Is No Free Market

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, U.S. Economy, Big Oil, Oil, Oil Prices, Free Market, Big Oil Tax Breaks, Oil Subsidies, Agriculture Subsidies, Big Oil Subsidies, Big Oil Tax, Politics News

In order for a market to truly be "free," it can't be manipulated or augmented via subsidies and tax breaks. The term "free" means "not physically res...

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