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1) Oil companies are making record profits
"Oil Industry Defends Its Record Profits," Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2006
"Backlash spreads as oil companies' profits surge," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct. 28, 2005
"Oil Doesn't Want Focus On Big Profit ," Washington Post, October 26, 2005
"Exxon Mobil profits exceed $25bn," BBC News Online, January 31, 2005
2) We’re paying more
"January prices gallop ahead," Associated Press, February 23, 2006
"Those high heating bills? They're about to get higher," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 2, 2005
"Fuel prices still rising," Associated Press, April 8, 2005
3) Rick Santorum recently voted to give oil companies an additional $2 billion in new tax breaks
Roll Call 213, H.R. 6, July 29, 2005
"How Those Big Bucks End Up In Big Oil's Pockets," Washington Post, Aug 7, 2005
"...In recent months, oil company profits have soared again as internation crude prices have hit new highs. Yet the reaction of the American public has been more muted. And that has probably emboldened Congress -- which, instead of investigating oil companies, just handed them (by various estimates) anywhere from $1.4 billion to $4 billion in tax breaks in the new energy bill."
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