Protesting profits
Demonstrators on Capitol Hill protest profits of oil companies and call for investment in renewable energy on a day where gas prices have reached a national average of $3.29 per gallon.
April 1, 2008
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May 19th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Over the past 25 years, the “big bad oil companies” have paid up $2.2 trillion dollars in tax (adjusted for inflation). That is more than three times the profit that they made in the same period.
Source: http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/1168.html
I am supposing that these protesters were trying to get attention from their senators. Senators do little more than complain and blame Bush and the Republican party.