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Created on Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:29
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Gouge Us Baby One More Time
by Laura Flanders l GRITtv
Gas prices have been edging up since February, reaching $4 a gallon this Easter, and Republicans are gearing up to make a stink about it. To blame Democrats, that is, for setting things up this way.
 
Blaming green energy initiatives for driving up prices, House Republicans are planning to hold hearings on a slurry of bills aimed at expanding domestic oil production in response to high gasoline prices. Even the President admits gas prices effect his standing in the polls.
 
 
But it should be easy enough to fight back. While the five biggest oil companies report historically high profit earnings, the same GOP that would slash juice programs for poor kids in school stands firm for federal subsidies for big oil.
 

It's enough to make your head spin. But then again, so is this country's entire relationship with big oil.

Like a marriage from hell. Americans keep getting beaten up environmentally, politically and at the pump.  And even as we're beaten up, we shell out: in subsidies, tax breaks, and troops sent around the world to die and kill in defense of the interests of Big Oil.

While Americans keep paying; Big Oil keeps on profiting. The top five companies together made a greasy trillion dollars profit over the last decade. That's Trillion with a T.  Yet Republican budgets would lay off the regulators even as they lay on the corporate welfare.

House Republicans marked the anniversary of the BP oil spill by voting unanimously FOR extending oil subsidies again this year.