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Oil Executives March On D.C.
'We Just Want Our Voices Heard'
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48458
May 17, 2006 | Issue 42•20

WASHINGTON, DC—More than 1,000 majority shareholders and executive officers from the nation's largest oil companies gathered in the National Mall and marched to Capitol Hill Monday in a mass demonstration for petrochemical corporations' rights and, according to several of those who attended, "to let our voices be heard at last."
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Dozens of the executives, sheikhs, and oil barons who marched to demand an end to their oppression

"We're American citizens, and we demand to be part of the national dialogue," said John S. Watson, vice president of international exploration and production for Chevron Corporation, the world's second-largest oil company. "Many people in our industry think nobody in Washington cares about us, and that our opinions don't matter. We're here today to change that."