Bob McCarty Writes

Saying the ultimate goal of the partnership is to secure more and better-paying jobs for Americans in the oil and gas industry and for more Americans in every region of the country, American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Jack Gerard announced this morning the formation of a historic partnership his organization that represents some 400 firms in the oil and natural gas industry and 15 labor unions.

“This partnership,” he said, “is based upon the belief that an economic recovery is not far away.”

The fact that “Big Oil” is partnering with “Big Labor” should send a signal to President Barack Obama and his Democrat cronies in Congress that their job-killing approach to energy policy — raising taxes on oil and gas companies, limiting exploration opportunities and placing increasingly-burdensome regulations on the industry — is damaging to the nation’s energy security.

For more details about the announcement, click here.