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Is Solar-Powered Rickshaw in Your Future?

November 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Thanks to President Barack Obama, who seems to be doing everything he possibly can to destroy the nation’s fossil fuels industries, there may be a solar-powered, made-in-Japan, robotic rickshaw in your future.
The latest attack on “Big Oil” came today when Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar used this news release today to announce his department [...]

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Labor, Oil Leaders Fighting to Save American Jobs

October 26th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Prediction: Crude Oil Price to Jump 31 Percent!

June 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments

When Rush Limbaugh mentioned Goldman Sachs’ prediction about the price of oil on his radio show today, I decided to share the statement American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard issued yesterday about the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee 2009 energy bill:
“As Goldman Sachs noted (Wednesday) when it raised its forecast for U.S. benchmark crude [...]

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Florida House Votes in Favor of Offshore Drilling, But Measure Runs Out of Time Before Senate Vote

April 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Though the Florida House of Representatives voted in favor of it yesterday, a move to open state waters to offshore oil drilling appears to have run out of time in the legislative session, according to a Miami Herald report via Upstream Online.com.
American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard today issued the following statement today about the [...]

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Poll: Most American Voters Favor Offshore Drilling

February 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Most American voters support increasing access to domestic offshore oil and natural gas resources and would oppose any new laws or regulations that blocked development of those national resources, according to a poll released today.
The poll, conducted by Harris Interactive and commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute, found that 61 percent of Americans who voted [...]

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