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Scuba

(53,475 posts) Fri Aug 8, 2014, 09:26 PM Aug 2014

The oil companies are paying a fair price to rent public land, right?

Uh, that would be a "no".

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The oil companies are paying a fair price to rent public land, right? (Original Post) Scuba Aug 2014 OP

, blkmusclmachine Aug 2014 #1

That's the invisible handjob of the free market. Snarkoleptic Aug 2014 #2

Then they short the meter Omaha Steve Aug 2014 #3

The oil belongs to the people, the corporations rent the oil land for a pittance...it is a crime. Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #4

blkmusclmachine

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Fri Aug 8, 2014, 09:38 PM

Aug 2014

Snarkoleptic

(5,997 posts)

2. That's the invisible handjob of the free market.

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Fri Aug 8, 2014, 09:55 PM

Aug 2014

Omaha Steve

(99,556 posts)

3. Then they short the meter

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Fri Aug 8, 2014, 10:00 PM

Aug 2014

Do you really think we get paid for every gallon of public land crude?

K&R!

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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

4. The oil belongs to the people, the corporations rent the oil land for a pittance...it is a crime.

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Fri Aug 8, 2014, 10:24 PM

Aug 2014

The rent is too damn low.

Should be 100 times as high. Let them start complaining about the rent being too damn high because you is sure do hear no complaints at all, do you?

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