Even before President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address tonight, the good folks at the American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Jack Gerard had issued a strong rebuttal, saying, “The President can do more.” The complete text of that rebuttal appears below: “The American people spoke loud and clear in the last [...]
API: ‘President can do more to create jobs’
January 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment
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‘Big Oil’ Urges Washington to Promote Energy Policies That Will Aid Recovery, Reduce Debt
January 4th, 2011 · No Comments
Earlier today, I encouraged my readers to Watch ‘State of American Energy’ Speech Live. Below, I share the text of an API news release about the important speech delivered moments ago by Jack Gerard, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.: “U.S. oil and natural gas companies are [...]
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Watch ‘State of American Energy’ Speech Live (UPDATE)
January 4th, 2011 · No Comments
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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Obama Administration Snubs Jobs, Energy Security With De Facto Offshore Drilling Moratorium
December 2nd, 2010 · 6 Comments
Despite published reports that an offshore drilling moratorium would cost the United States 175,000 jobs per year through 2035 and despite the fact that 61 percent of voters favor offshore drilling, the Obama Administration decided yesterday to go the other way. Citing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as a chief reason, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar [...]
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Survey: 60 Percent of Americans Oppose Raising Taxes on Nation’s Oil and Natural Gas Industry
November 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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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Ethanol Decision Could Do More Harm Than Good
October 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Two months ago, I warned you about President Barack Obama’s EPA blending politics and science. Now, according to an EPA news release issued Wednesday, the “blending” process appears to be complete: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today waived a limitation on selling fuel that is more than 10 percent ethanol for model year 2007 [...]
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Obama’s EPA Blending Politics and Science
August 20th, 2010 · 4 Comments
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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