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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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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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Obama to Close GITMO, Submerge Prisoners?

September 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments

File this under “never would have guessed it.”
In a piece published today at Right Truth, writer R.J. Godlewski unwittingly provides the evaluatory “tools” needed to connect the future of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility with President Barack Obama’s relentless assault of the nation’s oil and natural gas industry.

Before I continue riding this train of thought, [...]

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API, 15 Labor Unions Create Historic Oil and Natural Gas Industry Labor-Management Committee

June 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The American Petroleum Institute and 15 labor unions announced today the historic creation of the Oil and Natural Gas Industry Labor-Management Committee, which will work to promote job retention and growth.
In a post yesterday, I reported that a major labor-management announcement would be made during an API-hosted call-in news conference this morning.  That conference call [...]

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New Study: Oil and Gas Industry Leads Way in Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

June 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment

U.S.-based oil and natural gas companies invested $58.4 billion from 2000 through 2008 in technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study, Key Investments in Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Technologies by Energy Firms, Other Industry and the Federal Government, released by T2 and Associates and the Center for Energy Economics at the University of [...]

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