Still trying to figure out who's doing the gouging. In the first quarter of 2008 Exxon paid the highest taxes for a fiscal quarter of any company in American history. When you consider that the federal tax is 18-cents a gallon and Exxon is making somewhere between 8 and 9 cents a gallon it makes you wonder who's screwing you at the pump.
Here's another jewel: Exxon paid more taxes in the first quarter of '08 than more than half the people in the U.S.
Now the democrats favorite little pimp Henry Waxman is going to call the oil companies in for a hearing so he can "get to the bottom of things." What a jag off.
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