Letter to the Editor: 'Big Oil' wins again, thanks to GOP lawmakers in DC

The U.S. Republican senators recently voted to keep giving $21 billion in subsidies to big oil and gas companies, which have made world-record profits -- $32 billion between January and March 2011 and more than $900 billion over the past 10 years.

This Republican financial support of Conoco Phillips, BP, Chevron, Shell, and Exxon Mobil comes at a time when 74% of the American people (according to the Wall Street Journal) want this subsidy support ended and when at least 13 million Americans are out of work! (By the way, Mr. Boehner, where ARE the jobs?)

The Republicans have turned their backs...