Bob McCarty Writes

Though the attention of most Americans has been diverted by coverage of health care reform, cap-and-trade legislation, and shootings at Fort Hood and in Orlando, at least one other dangerous piece of legislation is creeping its way around the nation’s capitol.  Thanks to a statement from the folks at the American Petroleum Institute, I’m able [...]

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Details of the Kerry-Boxer climate change bill now the subject of hearings in the U.S. Senate bring to mind one question, “Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?” Unfortunately, this morbid humor offers little about which to laugh.

In a post three days ago, I warned you about what my friends in the oil [...]

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Four months after announcing the formation of the Oil and Natural Gas Industry Labor-Management Committee, the group’s leaders announced today they have written to senior members of Congress to encourage them to support tax policies that will protect and encourage the development of quality U.S. jobs, while at the same time fortifying our nation’s energy [...]

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My friends at the American Petroleum Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based group that represents some 400 companies involved in the oil and natural gas industry, sent me a note about an extremely-dangerous piece of legislation being sponsored by Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).  It contained the substance of a statement API President [...]

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The headline of a Roll Call article describes the climate change legislation being introduced today by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) as “Radioactive.”  Many in the nation’s capitol agree.
At the American Petroleum Institute, President Jack Gerard offered some choice words for the measure serving as the Senate counterpart to the House’s similarly-destructive [...]

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