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Battling Big Oil
Battling Big Oil
As John McCain travels to do a gimmicky appearance on a Gulf of Mexico oil rig to argue that oil companies should be given greater freedom to wreak environmental havoc and damage coastal economies in the name of enhanced production, can we recall that it was just two weeks ago that the McCain campaign released an add touting him as the right guy to “battle big oil.” I ...
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