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Old 05-26-2007, 03:40 AM
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Originally Posted by wordsmythe View Post
It kills me that you are so against the minimum wage increase yet you have no problem with the big oil companies charging record prices by shutting down refineries just before peak driving season and by all the mergers in the industry.

This drives the price of EVERYTHING up much more quickly than a higher minimum wage ever will.
So you think all the oil companies shut down their refineries on purpose to make more money? Perhaps you could talk to some of your liberal friends that make it next to impossible for oil companies to build more refineries and see what you can do about that situation.
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