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Haole Girl

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Sat Apr-29-06 12:45 PM
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Chevron joins US oil firm bonanza

Last Updated: Friday, 28 April 2006, 15:45 GMT 16:45 UK

Chevron joins US oil firm bonanza

Chevron has seen its first quarter profit jump 49% to $4bn (£2.2bn), making it the latest oil company to cash in on soaring world energy prices.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4955280.stm

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tabasco

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Sat Apr-29-06 12:53 PM
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1. Those damn environmental whackos!

How do these oil companies function at all with these environmentalists stopping everything they do??

You just know if it wasn't for these wacko environmentalists, the oil companies would build 20 new refineries and gas would be 50 cents a gallon!!

:sarcasm:

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xchrom

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Sat Apr-29-06 01:28 PM
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2. yeah, yeah and while those environmentalist terrorists

are at it -- they can lay off my 2 miles to the gallon 4x4!

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struggle4progress

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Sat Apr-29-06 11:54 PM
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3. Somebody's glad the oil cartel holds the Oval Office

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