Bob McCarty Writes

My friends at the American Petroleum Institute offered to fly me to Washington, D.C., and put me up in a hotel for a couple of nights so that I could have a front-row seat at a major event this morning.  Unfortunately, a scheduling conflict prevented me from being able to accept their offer.  I am, [...]

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The Obama Administration has been anything but friendly to the oil and natural gas industry during the past two years; still, if a news release (below) received from the American Petroleum Institute this morning is any indication, people in the “oil patch” see an ever-so-slim sign of optimism in rising demand for their products: WASHINGTON [...]

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By a decisive margin, Americans oppose raising taxes on America’s oil and natural gas industry, and most believe it could kill jobs, according to an election-night telephone survey commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute and conducted by Harris Interactive.  Sixty percent of the voters surveyed oppose an increase in taxes on the industry (compared with [...]

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Three months ago, I warned about Obama’s EPA Blending Politics and Science.  One month ago, I reported on an EPA decision that could do more harm than good.  Today, I’m backed up by the folks at the American Petroleum Institute, a group that represents more than 400 oil and natural gas companies. According to a [...]

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President Barack Obama used the occasion of his late-April visit to the POET Energy ethanol plant near Macon, Mo., to tout cellulosic ethanol as a viable alternative fuel that will generate tens of thousands of jobs.  That visit prompted me to ask the question, Does Obama Plan to Soak Taxpayers in Ethanol? Now, fast forward [...]

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Senate leaders took the right step to shelve a flawed spill bill, and we look forward to working with lawmakers to improve the bill so that American taxpayers, domestic jobs, the economy and our economic security are protected, according to a statement by American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Jack Gerard: “The decision today by [...]

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During a 45-minute conference call with journalists this morning, Jack Gerard shared some startling predictions about the future health of the nation’s oil and natural gas industry if the Obama Administration gets its way in adding more regulation and increasing taxes on offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.  The biggest one of all is [...]

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