Bob McCarty Writes

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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The American Petroleum Institute urged the U.S. Court of Appeals to uphold Judge Martin Feldman’s decision to stay the federal moratorium on deepwater offshore drilling. “The government took the proper steps to review the safety and operations of all rigs in the Gulf, following the Deepwater Horizon incident, but a blanket moratorium was a step [...]

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News that the Central Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale 213, held today in New Orleans, attracted nearly $1 billion in high bids, according to the Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service, had leaders in the nation’s oil and natural gas industry excited and calling upon the federal government to replicate the [...]

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Along with reporters from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and a slew of other household-name media outlets, I was invited to participate in a conference call hosted by American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard at 10 o’clock Central this morning.  Unfortunately, I was juggling several items and was unable to pay as close [...]

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“U.S. and global energy policy remains in the forefront of public debate, and I expect will remain there well into this decade,” said Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute.  “Unfortunately, too often lost in the sloganeering is the reality of what it will take to provide the nation with affordable, reliable energy and [...]

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By issuing an endangerment finding on CO2 today, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson effectively placed an economy-wide tax on energy use.  How can this be?  Because 85 percent of the U.S. economy runs on fossil fuels that emit carbon dioxide, according to a Heritage Foundation post today. Among those issuing immediate responses to the EPA actions [...]

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