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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 01:45 PM Original message |
Did you know oil companies get our oil for NOTHING???? NO royalties owed. |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. Wait, what? I thought somewhere around 30-50% went to the states off.... |
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Generic Other (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 05:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
28. The companies owe 50 billion according to Congress |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
2. Jeez, I knew they got incentives but I thought the U.S. still got royalties... |
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naaman fletcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
3. thats just not true. nt. |
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Generic Other (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 05:59 PM Response to Reply #3 |
29. Congressfolks said so on C-Span today |
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naaman fletcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 10:39 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. he was wrong. this is simple stuff you can google. nt. |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
4. Sure about that? |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:05 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I'm pretty sure Norway does |
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ParkieDem (417 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:23 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. Just to play devil's advocate .... |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:31 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Norway has a "welfare state"? |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 03:32 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. "Welfare state" or |
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Fleshdancer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
5. I thought it was a state by state thing |
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howaboutme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
7. It happens all over the world |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
8. I believe the deep water rigs are in Federal, not state, waters. |
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ellenfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
9. i seem to remember that royalties were discontinued. |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
10. If that were true Alaska would be in Dire Straits instead of sitting on a surplus. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
11. They pay for leases. Works out to about 10% to 15% of value of oil. |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:27 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. If someone gave me 10 cents on the dollar, I'd say it was "nothing" |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:32 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Well it wouldn't be. |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:33 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Only to a bean counter |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:36 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I think $160 billion is real money to anyone even non-bean counters. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 11:29 PM Response to Reply #21 |
32. How about we nationalize the fuckers? Then it'd be $1.6 Trillion. |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 03:42 PM Response to Reply #17 |
26. 10 cents on the dollar isn't bad for an entity that is similar to a silent partner. |
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bpj62 (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
12. Royalties |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:26 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Yep. |
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ParkieDem (417 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
13. I have no idea where you got your information. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 03:20 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. I got the information as a quote of one of the Congressmen |
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naaman fletcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 06:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. Well he is wrong. nt. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
15. Yes. And we like it that way. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
24. I thought they got subsidies for drilling. |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
25. I've been wondering about this and did some searching...found this: |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 03:43 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Some of them nationalize the fucking oil companies....others just let them |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-15-10 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
33. Obama dropped offshore tax on big Oil: |
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