In advance of President Barack Obama’s energy speech at Georgetown University, a top oil and natural gas industry leader called on the Obama Administration to abandon its policies “to defer, delay and deny access to domestic resources of oil and natural gas.” In a statement to reporters during a media conference call this morning, American [...]
Obama Administration Whitewashing Government Inaction Regarding Oil and Natural Gas Leases
March 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments
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‘Gas Strike’ Fueled by Emotion and Ignorance (Update)
March 10th, 2011 · 11 Comments
This morning, I came across a Facebook event, titled “GAS STRIKE,” that nearly a half-million people have signed up to “attend” today. Sadly, their effort — which involves boycotting gas stations for one day — is a misguided effort driven more by emotion and ignorance than common sense. Oil companies produce the oil and make [...]
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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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Trade Group Cites Increase in Demand for Petroleum Products as Sign of Stronger Economy
December 17th, 2010 · No Comments
The Obama Administration has been anything but friendly to the oil and natural gas industry during the past two years; still, if a news release (below) received from the American Petroleum Institute this morning is any indication, people in the “oil patch” see an ever-so-slim sign of optimism in rising demand for their products: WASHINGTON [...]
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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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