GOP: "Please, Mr. Oil Company Executive, Be Nicer"

The Financial Times reports that House Republicans are now publicly asking the oil industry to use its massive excess profits to increase refining capacity. The move highlights the unwillingness of the GOP to support a windfall profits tax on their oil industry donors - a levy the public overwhelmingly supports. Instead, the GOP's public policy prescription amounts to them saying "please Mr. Oil Company Executive, be nicer." This from the party that is supposed to pride itself on being "tough" and "strong."

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