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Oil firms vow to fight Schwarzenegger's tax proposal (9.9% state tax, every barrel pumped in state)
LA Times ^ | 11/7/08 | Marc Lifsher

Posted on 11/07/2008 9:34:27 AM PST by NormsRevenge

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To: NormsRevenge
9.9% state tax on every barrel of crude pumped out of the ground

Sounds like California is planning on importing more oil and producing less domestically.

It will certainly be cheaper for oil companies to ship oil from the other side of the world than to pay this tax by producing locally.

It would be a bad time to invest in a California drilling company.

21 posted on 11/07/2008 10:45:42 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: LRS

Bwahahahahaha! This more recent article answers my question:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128021/posts


22 posted on 11/07/2008 10:46:49 AM PST by LRS (Just contracts; just laws; just a Constitution...)
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To: NormsRevenge
Oil firms, I have a better idea!

Refuse to sell in California. Let Arnold find his own damn oil. Buy air time telling Californians their government wants to put you out of business, so you're going to just leave...like so many other small businesses in their state.

23 posted on 11/07/2008 11:10:15 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Cyman

taxes on pizzas, and gas, and clothing, and beer, and toilet paper . . but lawyers get a godd-— free ride.

Arnold is such a tool!


24 posted on 11/07/2008 11:24:43 AM PST by WilliamReading
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Only 9.99 percent? I have a better idea, how about a 50 percent tax on oil. What are you afraid of, Arnold?


25 posted on 11/07/2008 11:26:04 AM PST by WilliamReading
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To: NormsRevenge

Damned simple solution is available to producers....pump NOTHING once tax is implemented.


26 posted on 11/07/2008 12:04:16 PM PST by diogenes ghost
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To: NormsRevenge

All California Oil producers should shut down operations and move out. Problem solved.


27 posted on 11/07/2008 12:17:19 PM PST by LeonardFMason
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