http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1PfE9K8j0g
Why not give tax breaks to companies who research alternative fuels...why not incentivize oil companies to find more domestic oil?
She wants "to take those profits" and blah blah blah.
She's aghast at oil companies making the highest profits in the history of the world! Well she and Bill have profited off the presidency more than anyone in the history of the world, I'm aghast!! I wonder how she would feel about me "taking" their profits?
It's for the common good.
LOL. She can't be serious.
She wants to take all of the profits away from a corporation and give it to some government program that will most likely fail.
She really doesn't understand business does she. Taxing the heck out of an industry is the quickest way to kill it.
Is it possible that the oil industry have squelched new technology in order to maintain demand for fossil fuels? Possibly, and this should be the debate.
bttt to listen at home (can't go to youtube at work)
She is very dangerous
Funny, she forgot to mention the government already made more money on the POS taxes on the oil that generated these profits that Exxon did.
Is this stupid communist bitch aware that the price of oil has fallen about $30/bbl??
the nerve of that woman???
She is beyond belief.
I WILL!!
What a skankus gigantis...
In that year, she was addressing the Dems' (and George McGovern's) striving to tax wealth, and Ayn Rand's response was "nobody has asked the only relevant question that should be raised to this proposal: BY WHAT RIGHT?!" This phrase needs to be dusted off and used again and again as this group of demagogues start making their threats and spitting their venom.
She's going to take the oil companies' profits? Why the hell would they stay in business if they can't make money? She may as well just nationalize them!
Absolutely scary.
"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20040629-0007-ca-clintons-sanfrancisco.html
Nope, she's not a Marxist.
As usual the Liberals state, "profits", not "prcentage of profit". The number may be large but what is their profit in terms of percentage?
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) accused oil companies of manipulating energy markets to enhance profits and decried a lack of national leadership for a plan to free the country from dependence on foreign oil.
"I want to go after the oil companies and the oil speculators and the manipulators of the money, because they're the ones who I think are really behind this," Clinton told an audience in Elmira Heights on Thursday. "You have a hurricane, and all of a sudden you see prices going up like that. That has . . . everything to do with people trying to make money off the backs of this tragedy."
"You just cannot convince me that they are not manipulating this market," she told another audience near Newark, N.Y.
"I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in our entire economy that they're being watched," she said in explaining her call for an inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission. "I think human nature left to itself is going to push the limit as far as possible, and that's what you need a government regulatory system for: to keep an eye on people to make the rules of the game fair, to make a level playing field and not give anybody some kind of undue advantage."
"I am tired of being at the mercy of people in the Middle East and elsewhere, and I'm tired frankly of being at the mercy of these large oil companies," Clinton said.
She can't get elected if she offends big business.