Senator on CSPAN now - will introduce bill to seize profits from Big Oil

[StellaBlue]

Byron Dorgan (D), North Dakota

http://dorgan.senate.gov/

Currently on the floor of the US Senate advocating taking the 'extra' profits from Big Oil and putting into a relief fund for hurricane survivors. And he even has a Perot-esque chart!

He will introduce this bill tomorrow.

[villager]

1. yes! This is an election issue for '06! "My opponent voted for Big

Oil, voted to let them price gouge you at the pumps, voted to let them suck money straight out of your community!," etc.

Which any Dem that cares to will be able to say of any Repub., since they'll all reliably vote "no" on such an "extreme," citizen-benefiting measure.

[Melodybe]

2. Way to go Dorgan!

callling his office now to say thanks:

202-224-2551 (phone)

Do the same this is a great idea.

[meow2u3]

3. WTG, Byron Dorgan!!!

Stick it to those thieving profiteers, pal!!! :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo:

[Vincardog]

4. It is about time. Why is gas in TX $3/gallon? Profiteering must stop

Next se need to demand Public Works rebuilding not one penny to Mega Corporations.

[shavedape]

5. force shrub to veto

and all will see him for the vampire he is.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Yesss! That would be so sweet!

:woohoo:

[Just Me]

6. Appropriate. Actually, they shouldn't be profiteering off war, either.

We really need a bill prohibiting war-profiteering!!!

[StellaBlue]

7. He was already planning on doing this BEFORE Katrina:

http://dorgan.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=243935

<snip>

Thursday, August 18, 2005
DORGAN CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION OF GASOLINE PRICES AND WANTS WINDFALL PROFITS TAX ON OIL COMPANIES


(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND) Thursday called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to begin the formal investigation of oil and gas prices that is required in the new energy bill just signed by President Bush.

Dorgan, who authored the provision that requires an investigation, said current oil and gasoline prices are not the product of an open and transparent market. There is plenty of room and opportunity for consumers to be gouged by oil companies wanting to cash in on OPEC price fixing, he said.

...

“The current dramatic spikes in gasoline prices are forcing consumers to pay higher prices and are providing fat profits for the major oil companies and the OPEC countries,” Dorgan said.

...

“This has nothing to do with a free market,” Dorgan maintained. “It is about the OPEC countries and the major oil companies profiting in a controlled market that rewards them and penalizes our consumers.”

... /<snip>


He also said he saw a bumper sticker the other day that said 'I fought the gas war and the gas won'.

[chaumont58]

9. Would Senator Dorgan be DLC?

Just wondering!

[Fovea]

10. This is a great start!

Now, when we take it back in 06, let's nationalize oil, and use the profits to fund health care, mass transit, and education.

Oh, yeah, and let's get our military back to defending our shores, and with the budget surplus, we can start paying down our national debt.

[LittleClarkie]

11. Where are the Dems? Why aren't they speaking out? They're AWOL!

And other fairy stories.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Excellent..

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Save the Gulf:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=22507&mesg_id=22507

Then save the nation!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. Good going!

[AZBlue]

14. Finally, a sane voice

Thank you Sen. Dorgan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's all write and support this!

[blindpig]

15. never happen

without a revolution. They own the government. And a revolution won't happen until conditions are so bad for so many that the world view of American consumerists society is shattered. And then it will be too late, welcome to Thunder Dome. Hope the box turtles make it.

[Occulus]

16. yeeeesssss

and I would argue it be made permenant. In fact, I would say nationalization of oil interests and dissolution of oil corporations is called for now.

[SoCalDem]

17. Nice try, but it won't happen

republicans know which side their bread is buttered..

[StellaBlue]

18. One word

Oligarchy



But I still thought it was important that this was even being SAID on the floor of the U.S. (ExxonMobil) Senate.

[Dr Fate]

19. Let them explain WHY come '06 or '08.

n/t

[Booster]

20. Why don't they introduce a bill that bans Halliburton and any other

company connected to the band of thieves in the WH from getting any more government contracts, especially with no-bids.