Bob McCarty Writes

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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Though natural gas pipeline explosions like the one that leveled a neighborhood and left several people dead in San Bruno, Calif., Sept. 9 are rare, having petroleum product and natural gas pipelines running through her yard still makes Shelley Miller of St. Peters, Mo., nervous and scared. “I started shaking from the inside out,” said [...]

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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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File this under “never would have guessed it.” In a piece published today at Right Truth, writer R.J. Godlewski unwittingly provides the evaluatory “tools” needed to connect the future of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility with President Barack Obama’s relentless assault of the nation’s oil and natural gas industry. Before I continue riding this train [...]

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The pace of U.S. petroleum delivery declines continued to slow last month, according to the American Petroleum Institute’s Monthly Statistical Report, which noted the 2.1 percent year-to-year slip in overall petroleum deliveries (a measure of demand) was the smallest in a year and a half. While distillate fuel oil (diesel and heating oil), along with [...]

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American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard issued the following statement today regarding the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s approval of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade proposal in a 33-25 vote largely along party lines: “While the bill has laudable environmental and economic goals, its inequitable system of allocations remains intact and if enacted would have a disproportionate [...]

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With gas and diesel prices in the United States higher than ever, many Americans are struggling to find ways to pay for fuel. Some are turning to plasma — selling their plasma, that is. By selling their blood plasma, healthy Americans can help their fellow man and help themselves by earning enough money to drive [...]

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