cspan3 today: Oil CEOs and Price Issues

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House Select Energy Cmte. Chairman Edward Markey (D-MA) brings top-level executives from the five largest oil companies to discuss the current state of oil & gas prices, renewable fuels, and pollution.


Today at noon on cspan3.

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1. bump

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2. Nobody cares what the oil executives are lying about today?

Listen to them lie today at noon on cspan3

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3. On cspan3 right now, link

http://www.cspan.org/watch/cs_cspan3_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3

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4. Make sure they have been Sworn In

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5. is this our official thread?

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7. Sure, what the heck. I'll see if its too late to edit the title

Liars on board. Give me a f-ing break dude. Its not our fault. We aren't gauging.

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6. I'm going to have to turn this off

its pissing me off. the problem here is the exorbitant prices the oil companies are charging not what they are paying. its the profits dammit

Add. Go rep. Hall, hes on it.

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8. Oil execs opening statements on now, and boy are they sickening

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9. The Shell exec is totally clueless

Look what we are doing with our money. We are spending x dollars on this and that.

That isn't the point doofus, you are doing that and still making record profits.

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10. They will have you believe

that they aren't making money and its not their fault that the gas prices are so enormously high as their profits rises.

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13. Yeah, right. Well, thats what happens when you have a hearing like this on April Fool's Day

They are all thinking to themselves, April Fool's suckers.

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11. one question...why are you reaping historical profits? eh? why the fuck? eh? someone got an answer

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12. They don't have an answer

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14. They aren't exactly talking about oil prices

I'm glad that they are working on wind and solar farms, but that has nothing to do with making our motor vehicles move.

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15. "We can't help that the world relies on oil"

translation - and we have been doing everything we can to make sure that the world relies on nothing else.

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16. They aren't making any sense so far

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17. I hope someone ask them about Dick Cheney

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18. Ed Markey .... cutting through the B.S.

This Simon from Exxon is a real troglodyte.

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19. Oh good grief.....Senselessbrenner serving up the Koolaid.....

n/t

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20. Time for the RePiglicans to defend the Oil Monopoly... :sigh:

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21. repukes still stuck on new oil refineries

It still doesn't answer the profit question

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36. "New refineries" make no fucking sense as we've passed Peak Oil!

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

When all else fails, wingnuts hit their own "easy button" : the one that says "BLAME LIBERALS!"

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22. One more rec will put this on the greatest page. I think this is important

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23. need 1 more rec

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24. Shadegg up now, rightwing hack

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25. Ah, a dem is up now. I don't feel like blowing my brains out temporarily

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26. Now trying to get into drilling in Alaska will help, at least thats what the oil execs say

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29. Bull Shit. It could take up to a decade to bring that oil to market, then

it will all go to Asia. They have already promised the oil to them.

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27. Rep John Larsen:

What can we say to people when they have to give up their entire social security check to pay their oil bill? What can we say when we are giving you billions of dollars in tax breaks?

Oil exec response: It isn't our fault that we are dependent on oil. And we need all our money.

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28. A repuke up again: Why can't canada give us more?

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30. Inslee asked for notes from the Cheney Task Force.

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31. Missed that, what was the reply, as if I didn't know

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32. One admitted he was there and when asked for his notes he said yes.

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34. I bet they never see the light of day

Kind of yeah, sure. I'll get back to you with that info. Then sound of crickets chirping.

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38. Darth Cheney will block the release.

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33. Cleaver up now, Dem from MO

Asking what can I tell my parents about why the exxon exec received a $400M package

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35. Oh that was in the past,

doncha know its not relevant NOW?. God these oil execs are real pieces of work aren't they?

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37. They don't want anything to interfere with their own bonuses when they

come up.

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39. Markey wants to get unanimous consent to let some guests ask questions

It is other congressmen, I think Maxine Waters was one of them. Sensebrenner objects of course. He says that they shouldn't suspend the rules in a committee. Markey points out that he is wrong, but he still objects. Markey was pissed off about it. Makes a comment "Why didn't you tell us 3 hours ago". Sensebrenner objects to the comment, and they strike the words. Bottom line is that the others don't get to ask questions. Maxine Waters is polite and says thats OK, she is there because it is an important issue.