from the article: "But the two chambers disagree over how to treat those companies once the subsidies are gone."
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CUT them (the oil companies) off and make them pay their own way!  It is time for us to stop subsidizing the oil industry.  Tax these corporations at rates that compensate us not only for letting them take our oil, but for our oil  Let the price of oil "float" to where it belongs without subsidies and then let's choose which energy source works best for us.  We hear lots of yapping from the Milton Freedman acolytes about how important free markets are (w/o government interference) - so lets have at it and quit giving these multi-million and multi-billion dollar oil companies government handouts. I'm down with that!