The Daily Background

The Post reports today on its front page:

Exxon Mobil Corp. reported $8.4 billion in first-quarter profit yesterday, as members of Congress outraged over high gasoline prices hastened to propose measures that would boost taxes on oil firms, open new areas to drilling and provide rebates to taxpayers but would not necessarily alter prices at the pumps.

The earnings outstripped the oil giant’s profit in the first quarter of last year. Given current oil market conditions, analysts said, that puts Exxon Mobil on track to break the $36 billion record profit it made last year.

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Congress has the authority to approve changes in mileage standards for passenger cars, and the executive branch can set them for light trucks without approval from Congress. But neither Congress nor the administration has shown much interest in raising passenger car standards, which were set in the 1970s and haven’t changed since 1985.

Republican-controlled Congress and this awful White House Administration care more about companies profitting than the enviornment. And oil companies are getting richer than ever, and our world’s environment is in worse shape than ever. And Americans can’t afford to fill up at the station. Ugh. This industry, the industry that both our Republican President and our Republican Vice President come from, needs to become extinct. Entry here. Disgraceful. Profiting off of the wholesale murder of the world’s environment, to the financial dismay of American families all over the country.

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