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Originally Posted by PursuitOfHappinessParty
Tough beating Wal-Mart.
$93 Average price of a barrel of oil sold by Exxon in the first quarter.
$55 Average price this time last year.
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But of course, oil prices and Bush and Cheneys policies are completely unrelated.
OilCompanies.net - News and Articles
"Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States."
–Dick Cheney, October 1986.
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REPUBLICAN PARTY: Oil and Gas Industry Contributed Nearly $67 Million to Republicans Since 2000. The oil and gas industry has contributed over $66.7 million to the RNC, NRCC, NRSC, and Republican candidates since the 2000 election cycle. The oil and gas industry contributed more than $20 million to Republicans in the 2004 cycle alone-four times more than oil money donated to Democrats. In 2004, Exxon alone gave 831,941 to Republicans. [Center for Responsive Politics]
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seems to have been a pretty good investment for them.