Saturday, February 03, 2007

Hilary Clinton says she will seize oil company profist

Seriously.. she said she wants to "take" the profit from privately owned oil companies.

Blogging will be light today. Hangover from Hell.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ah. Private companies in a particular sector making too much profit. Must tax them. Bonkers.

These companies have invested billions to make the profits, and they are making lots because of global oil prices. Taxing high profit/high risk areas just tends to stop people investing in high risk things. Like renewables for example.

Anonymous said...

Hilary Clinton might end up with egg on her face. All that lovely profits made over the last few years does not disappear into someone's pocket, a lot of it is invested in new fields.
Oil companies reduce that investment = less oil = higher petrol prices.

That is why there was so much anger at Brown DOUBLING the tax on oil companies in the North Sea without warning, don't think the trade and industry department was happy either. They had been trying to encourage smaller companies to invest there too, and Gordon needing a quick fix to his empty coffers blew that out of the water. Everything that man has done has been for short term gain and will cost us dearly in years to come, anyone fancy a pension?
Never has a chancellor been so praised during his term in office, but he will be vilified in years to come when we feel the bite of his spend now and pay later chancellorship.

Anonymous said...

I think she's going to be the next president too.

Quickly, sell all your shares in Texaco, find out what companies she's going to dole out the cash to (who is funding her campaign by the way, what line of work are they in?), and get in quick.

Guido Fawkes said...

Lightweight. The hangover might explain the typos..

The Hitch said...

cheers for the "parting shot" Dizzy
A blow to my chin .

dizzy said...

patchy memory.

Chris Paul said...

Goodness gracious me. Dizzy got dizzy. Was just hearing the tale of a local newspaper hack who NUJ got off being sacked after a similar blow to the chin on the booze. Much helped by some expletives rather like those deleted from the Finegold tape submitted to the court and transcriptised (mostly without mention of the potty mouthed gap) in all the papers.