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Oil executives taken to task over soaring pump prices | Business | The Guardian:
My guess is that Exxon being “taken to task” means receiving some finger-wagging in front of the cameras — followed by nothing actually changing.
In the National Stereotype Museum, they are the example par excellence for “Evil Corporation”. Everyone knows that things with X’s in their name are totally, poisonously evil — They have TWO X’s in their name, for fuck sake! That’s, like, one “X” away from being as bad as moonshine or Times Square in the 1970’s! Could they spell it out for you any more clearly? Dos Equis es igual de mal.
How spineless does Congress have to be to *not* take away $18,000,000,000 in tax breaks from an industry that made $55,000,000,000 in profits last year? That’s just falling out of the boat and hitting votes, people!
You couldn’t do better — unless you were giving away puppies stuffed with money!
How do these Oil cartels get away with it, anyways?
