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Podcast of Radio Appearance Now Available

March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

The podcast of my Friday night appearance as a guest on The Curtis Sliwa Show is now available.  Click here to listen. [NOTE: My segment begins at the halfway point of the clip.] During this, my fifth appearance on the nationally-syndicated radio talk show, host Curtis Sliwa and I debated a variety of “Big Oil” [...]

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BMW Talks ‘Big Oil’ on The Curtis Sliwa Show (Updated)

February 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Tonight, I made my fifth guest appearance on The Curtis Sliwa Show. During a 15-minute segment that began at 10:30 p.m. Central, I found myself on the opposite side of the issue from host Curtis Sliwa when it came to the predictions made by an oil company executive and chronicled in my post, Worst-Case Scenario: [...]

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Worst-Case Scenario: Chevron Exec Warns of Gas Lines, Price Hikes, Civil Unrest and Fuel Shortages

February 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Two days after Gary Luquette met with members of the House Natural Resources Committee, the president of Chevron North America Exploration and Petroleum Company warned that gas lines, price hikes, fuel shortages and incidents of civil unrest could surface as components of a worst-case scenario resulting from reinstatement of the moratoria on offshore drilling. Luquette’s [...]

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Senate Democrats Oppose Energy Independence (Updated)

January 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Thanks to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), legislation that will further hinder our nation’s ability to become energy independent (i.e., depend less upon foreign sources of oil and natural gas) is one step closer to becoming law. There are at least a couple of provisions — and perhaps more — in the just-passed Omnibus [...]

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Report: Increased Drilling Generates Revenue, Creates Thousands of Jobs, Boosts Energy Security

December 8th, 2008 · No Comments

The development of the United States’ vast domestic oil and natural gas resources that had been kept off limits by Congress for decades could generate more than $1.7 trillion in government revenue, create thousands of new jobs and enhance the nation’s energy security by significantly boosting domestic production, a study released Monday shows. The ICF [...]

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