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Hillary Clinton: “I think there is such a disconnect between what the oil companies have been raking in as profits and any comparable…”

On the recordMay 13, 2008
I think there is such a disconnect between what the oil companies have been raking in as profits and any comparable investment or effort that they have made to produce those profits.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

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Clinton discusses the need for a windfall profit tax on oil companies.

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