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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 09:38 AM
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OMG!! Texas Fines ExxonMobil $150,462 For Air Pollution Violations!!!
Poor ExxonMobil! How will they survive?!?! :cry:

HOUSTON - "Texas fined Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) $150,462 this week for violations of air pollution regulations at the company's 363,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery in Beaumont, Texas.

According to a statement issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality the violations were discovered during investigations in 2002."

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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 09:50 AM
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1. OMG! Gas prices are gonna skyrocket!
How can they afford it?!?
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 09:58 AM
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2. damned government, with its boot on the throat of free enterprise!
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 10:06 AM
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3. Not to worry
They will weasel out of it somehow.
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bookman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 10:32 AM
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4. There goes...
..this month's petty cash fund at Exxon.
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Viking12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 10:37 AM
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5. Exxon will spend more on the PR campaign
that will condemn this "travesty of justice" :think:
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 10:41 AM
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6. That , or the PR campaign about their "environmental leadership"
blahblahblahblahblah . . .
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 10:53 AM
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7. The $9.00 an hour part time clerk who signs the check...
... won't even have to get permission from his supervisor. It will be listed on the books as "state fees, misc."
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enki23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 05:05 PM
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8. fucking trial lawyers are going to ruin the terrific bush economy
.
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Lucky Luciano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-04 05:29 PM
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9. That'll teach them! nt
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