"NewsHog" wrote in message
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Interestingly, I drive a stock Dodge Ram pickup with a diesel that gets 17
mpg around town and 23 mpg highway. And the tree huggers rant about that
too. We have no shortage of gas. We have greedy oil companies like Exxon
who pays no federal taxes, and yet charges us dearly to make their 9.92
billion dollar quarterly net profit.

2003 Exxon had a $11 billion tax bill to fed, state, local governments.