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Re:Taxing Uber and Lyft rides is L.A's latest plan to free u... by icebraining on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @03:16AM (#19261769)
> For example: Exxon mobil profits in 2017 were 19.7 billion. Fukushima cleanup costs exceed 180 billion.

So you could cleanup one of the worst "spills" in history with a mere 10 years of a single company's profits?

That sounds perfectly OK.

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Re:Taxing Uber and Lyft rides is L.A's latest plan to free u... by Yetanfou on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @03:26AM (#19261825)
Even better, it would have been possible to avoid that spill with that money and you'd probably have enough left over for a healthy profit afterwards.
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