Bob McCarty Writes

One can hardly blame leaders of the nation’s oil and natural gas industries for feeling the need to be aggressive when it comes to combating the Obama Administration’s all-out war against fossil fuels exploration.  Today, officials at the American Petroleum Institute called on the U.S. Department of State to approve the Keystone Pipeline Project as [...]

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Officials at the American Petroleum Institute say they understood from the beginning that the 1995 Deep Water Royalty Relief Act was a smart piece of legislation that created the opportunity for domestic energy production, jobs and economic activity.  Today, however, it appears that legislation is in peril, an apparent target in the Left’s ongoing war [...]

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The American Petroleum Institute released the following statement today on two letters — one from 20 governors, the other from 98 business groups — asking Congress to prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from issuing greenhouse gas emission rules: The letters indicate broad-based, growing concern from both state governments and business and industry about [...]

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As so-called “cap-and-trade” legislation winds its way through Congress, many Americans want to know how they their country’s energy future might be impacted if the legislation becomes law.  Because the mainstream media isn’t being too honest about the topic, they have to find alternative sources of information, including the blog you’re reading now.  Another good [...]

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In my continuing effort to offer extensive coverage on fossil fuels-related subject matter such as the oil and natural gas industry, climate change and cap-and-trade legislation, including Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Boxer, I point you to the exchange above between Sunoco Inc. CEO Lynn Eisenhan and U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) at the WSJ’s CEO Council. In [...]

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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 [...]

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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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