- Last time I checked, Big Oil was paying more than their fair share in tax rates. Maybe you should learn a thing or two before opening your big mouth, Mr. Speaker...
They certainly are.
How bout we drill Mr. Speaker Boob?
That’s it. I am done with Boner and the Republicans.
The are part of the disease and what destroyed this country.
We need a third party now. Tea Party may need to spin off.
So whom saved and for how long?
It's all smoke and bullshit until we drill and refine and beg the fed to invade the refineries and drill sites.
I can't be David Koresh by myself, but if big oil backs and supports me, I'll go man a tower at a drill site or refinery.
Was there a tear rolling down his cheek when he said the oil companies needed to bail out the government? /s/
The stupid party earns it’s name every day.
Boehner is doing a McCain and caving in early and often.
He need to be replaced.
Boehner is unable to say anything with nuance, or else he is showing the color of yellow. He is now co-opted, morally unable to fight against the increasing expansion of government, EPA, and the general bullying going on against capitalism through raising taxes and increasing regulation. I am about done excusing Boehner and hoping he doesn’t really mean what he says the way he says it. But he does.
Hey, Weeping Willie...ever heard of INFLATION? Brought on by the debasement of our dollar?
Boehner’s statement shows that none of the Republican “leadership” have a clue as to the financial abyss we are sliding into. I suspect they are undermining Paul Ryan at every opportunity. We need more Tea Party congresspeople.
$45 billion over 10 years? So we’re talking $4.5 billion per year? That’s what — less than one DAY’s worth of deficit spending?
Typical “political finger pointing” BS......Sixteen hundred is hitting on both “speculators” and the “Oil Companies” today.......All without mentioning its inside the Beltway regulations are issued and policys are formulated creating decades of “energy crises” not merely the latest.....Or that most of the “blame” for the current gas spiral can be traced to reckless monetary polices driven by federal fiscal ikrresponsibility and the “One’s” incredible spending spree.... >PS
And who first to predict that the Republicans would jump on the anti-BIG OIL band wagon?
I WAS!
Of course, the fact that they have only done that a dozen times since the 70s made it an easy prediction.
“they’ve got some part of this to blame”
This is outrage. I understand the business bashing from dems and dailykos, but the GOP speaker of the House joining this is disgusting.
Oil companies are private companies. They try to drill oil as much as possible (prevented doing so by the Imperial Obama Goverment). They operate on normal free market basis. What the heck they have been doing wrong?
As for subsidies, my understanding is that they are normal business or research credits (e.g. renewable energy) and it is not possible to single out one industry and say that everybody else except oil companies are eligible. If Gov wants to hand out taxmoney for solar BS research, it should not be limited to some leftist fake companies. (Of course, they should be eliminated from every company)
OPEC and government are to blame to for high oil prices. Oil companies have nothing to do with high oil prices.
This guy is so stupid, I’ll bet he’s got someone to wipe his arse cause he could find it on his own!
who thought the orange tan, crybaby politician would be such a puss/weasel? (snark)
I think they should say tax breaks when they mean tax breaks because subsidies sound like direct cash payout to someone. In essence, the tax break for mortgages is a subsidy then. I think when they talk like this they muddy the waters.
Of course, I’m not against getting rid of real subsidies, and I think looking at tax breaks is fine. I just think the language is used pretty loosely and many people are fairly unclear about what they are talking about. Most people don’t consider something like their own tax deductions they might get a subsidy, but using this definition, it is.