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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1180339, member: 3011&quot;]It isn&#039;t the big 5 that will be impacted, and they have said that.&nbsp; It is the independent exploration and production company that is cash flow negative and trying to develop a new resource that will be heavily damaged.&nbsp; But Congress would rather reduce domestic energy production and score media points with an uneducated electorate.&nbsp; And here is something for you to look up in your Collectivist Economics 101 manual.&nbsp; See if they tell you that what they refer to as &quot;profit&quot; is really the cost of equity capital.&nbsp; And without paying the cost of capital, capital is not allocated.&nbsp; And that higher profit margins are capitalism&#039;s mechanism for attracting more investment capital to sectors where demand exceeds supply -- like domestic energy.&nbsp; The Communists tried for decades to repeal the law of supply and demand and they failed.&nbsp; The US Congress will also.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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