{"id":6509,"date":"2011-05-17T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-we-should-end-tax-giveaways-for-big-oil\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:10:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:10:57","slug":"merkley-we-should-end-tax-giveaways-for-big-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-we-should-end-tax-giveaways-for-big-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley: Deber\u00edamos poner fin a las donaciones de impuestos a las grandes petroleras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington DC - <\/strong>Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after the Senate voted Tuesday against initiating debate on a bill to end tax giveaways to Big Oil companies:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The current tax subsidies for the oil industry were put in place when the price of oil was $17 a barrel.&nbsp; Times have changed &ndash; the price of a barrel has jumped to around $100 and the most profitable Big Oil companies are pulling in $5 million in profits every hour.&nbsp; They don&rsquo;t need additional taxpayer giveaways to stay afloat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;Today, the U.S. Senate had an opportunity to debate whether American taxpayers should continue reaching into their pockets to hand over $2 billion per year to Big Oil.&nbsp; America is facing tough choices about tax fairness and reducing deficits.&nbsp; These are serious issues that deserve a full debate and that&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m disappointed that this vote failed tonight.&rdquo;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after the Senate voted Tuesday against initiating debate on a bill to end tax giveaways to Big Oil companies: &ldquo;The current tax subsidies for the oil industry were put in place when the price of oil was $17 a barrel.&nbsp; Times have changed &ndash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-6509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-protecting-consumers-taxpayers-and-the-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley: We Should End Tax Giveaways for Big Oil - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-we-should-end-tax-giveaways-for-big-oil\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley: We Should End Tax Giveaways for Big Oil - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, D.C. &ndash; 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