Protesting profits

Posted by Meredith MacKenzie on April 1, 2008 |

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.

Protesting oil profits

Protesting oil profits

Demonstrators on Capitol Hill

April 1, 2008

One Response to “Protesting profits”

  1. Capitalist Says:

    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.


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