The Ramblings of the Titanium Don

Big oil gets all the breaks

Today, reading news online, I stumbled, literally, across this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110510/ap_on_re_us/us_oil_company_subsidies It was buried beneath all kinds of thoroughly unimportant stuff – but nevertheless, it is an attempt on the part of some senators to actually DO SOMETHING USEFUL. To sum up: A trio of Senators have proposed legislation to end the subsidies that the big oil companies currently receive. Big oil makes BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, I repeat, BILLIONS in profit – and yet they get SUBSIDIES.  Subsidies are for entities