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On August 6, 2009, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) introduced the "Stop Tax-breaks for Oil Profiteering Act" in the Senate, which is intended to temporarily curb excessive speculative trading in the oil and gas futures markets by eliminating the preferential tax treatment of direct and certain derivative interests in oil and natural gas
