On the recordMay 10, 1996
While gas keeps going up, oil companies keep making excuses. They say the blizzard did it. Spring sprung sooner than expected. More people are buying gas guzzlers and, check this one out, to try and help us, they waited and waited and waited to buy the crude oil at such a low price so they could pass the savings on to us. Spare me, Mr. Speaker, the profits of Unocal are up 70 percent; Marathon, 180 percent; Phillips, 500 percent. Who is kidding whom? These creeps make the Mafia look like choir boys, Mr. Speaker. I did not vote for the gas tax. I am going to vote to repeal the gas tax. But I also think we should slap a windfall profit tax on these turkeys in a heart beat. What is next, not enough Americans ride bikes? Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.
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