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bemused_leftist) wrote2010-05-24 09:50 pm
bemused_leftist) wrote2010-05-24 09:50 pm
Palin vs the oil companies
http://trueslant.com/level/2010/05/24/sarah-palin-has-more-oil-spill-credibility-than-you-think/
As Alaska’s occasional governor, Palin actually took a rather populist position on how oil companies should be dealt with.
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[S]he had refused to let her state’s energy policy be set on terms that were most favorable to those large companies – like the very ones she accuses Obama of receiving too much money from today.
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Palin was always a believer in Alaska’s system of petro-socialism, and does not in any way believe that the oil companies should get a pass.
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Now there’s certainly an insincere germ in Palin’s attempt to Katrina-ize the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the Deepwater Horizon disaster. But when it comes to not being a great friend to oil companies, Palin was the real deal when she held political office.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=5786203&page=2
[ Here are details of the tax plan she got passed -- not windfall profits, but a longterm graduated profits tax. ] "Everyone went home happy except the oil companies."
As Alaska’s occasional governor, Palin actually took a rather populist position on how oil companies should be dealt with.
[....]
[S]he had refused to let her state’s energy policy be set on terms that were most favorable to those large companies – like the very ones she accuses Obama of receiving too much money from today.
[....]
Palin was always a believer in Alaska’s system of petro-socialism, and does not in any way believe that the oil companies should get a pass.
[....]
Now there’s certainly an insincere germ in Palin’s attempt to Katrina-ize the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the Deepwater Horizon disaster. But when it comes to not being a great friend to oil companies, Palin was the real deal when she held political office.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=5786203&page=2
[ Here are details of the tax plan she got passed -- not windfall profits, but a longterm graduated profits tax. ] "Everyone went home happy except the oil companies."