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> Send BP and Shell the bill for the infrastructure upgrade

Should they also get credits for all the progress oil has allowed us to make?

Have they not already been financially compensated for this?

No, they extract and sell oil and they happen to do it at a profit. This is not the same as being compensated or billed for things that resulted from the use of that oil.

That's called _money_.

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