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United States Could Be Energy Independent If…

November 4th, 2009 · No Comments

The United States could be energy independent if it possessed the collective political will to make it happen.  After all, the country has the largest energy reserves on earth, according to a recently-released Congressional Research Service report.
As shown in the first chart below, the United States’ 1,321 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) tops number [...]

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Kerry-Boxer Bill Kills American Jobs, Increases Energy Costs and Undermines Energy Security

October 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Details of the Kerry-Boxer climate change bill now the subject of hearings in the U.S. Senate bring to mind one question, “Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?” Unfortunately, this morbid humor offers little about which to laugh.

In a post three days ago, I warned you about what my friends in the oil [...]

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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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API: Kerry-Boxer Worse than Waxman-Markey

October 24th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Did Photo Capture Obama Bowing to Oil Interests?

October 15th, 2009 · No Comments

I was psyched at the prospect of a photo rumored to show President Barack Obama bowing to the interests of the nation’s oil and natural gas industry.  Could it be that the president — yes, the same one who, through his Secretaries of the Interior and Energy, seems bent on breaking the country’s energy backbone [...]

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