The attitude of Corp pigs at the taxpayer trough - bloat our profits!!!

[FormerRepublican]

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Oil drilling companies are upset that the Bush administration has proposed killing funding for oil and natural gas exploration research and development programs at the Department of Energy, an industry lobbyist said Monday.

The proposed cuts were included in the $2.77 trillion budget for the 2007 fiscal year that President Bush presented to Congress on Monday.

The proposed 2007 budget would cut about $61 million from the Energy Department's budget. It proposes eliminating a $50 million-per-year research-and-development program that was authorized in the sweeping Energy Policy Act of 2005, which Bush signed in August.

"Industry has the incentives and resources to do such R&D on its own," said a written statement from the White Office of Management and Budget."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/06/budget.oil/index.html

To add insult to injury, it's the profit bloated oil companies who are whining that Bush cut them off the taxpayer teat... How long before Bush caves - a day? A week? And how many poor people will starve when he changes his mind?

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