How to Avoid a Windfall Profits Tax

From The Oil Drum:

Last week, I wrote about the Senate response to high oil prices: there seemed to be a lot of grandstanding, and assuring the consumers that the Big Bad Oil Companies would be paying. It very well may come to nothing, but one senatorial reaction was that of Byron Dorgan (D-ND), who hopes to propose a windfall profits tax on the oil companies that will kick in whenever gas rises above $40/barrel. (According to this article, he may be introducing that legislation today.) The Houston Chronicle has an updated article on various Senate responses to high oil prices.

Well, it seems that France is in a very similar
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