depletion allowance
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While industry lobbyists still protested the impending death of the depletion allowance, some individual oil executives were pleased to fend off a much harder blow.
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Nothing is more sacred to many Congressmen than the depletion allowance.
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For their part, oilmen maintain that they would not have risked North Slope drilling without the depletion allowance, and claim that the allowance is necessary to spur further development.
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One reason is that oil companies have less money to spend: Congress has eliminated most of their depletion allowance, and their profits have dropped.
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In an unusual move for a Texan, he has proposed the elimination of the oil depletion allowance for the major oil producers.
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