It's not enough for big oil to screw consumers at the pumps every summer. It also wants to defraud states out of the true value for their mineral rights. Could Alabama have used that $3.5 billion? It sure could have--for better schools, roads and bridges, health care, you name it.
Don Siegelman was fighting for that, and our guess is, that's why big oil decided he had to be stopped.
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