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  • Republicans G.A.S. Act Exploits Katrina For Gas & Oil Industry
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Numerous environmental and public service groups have issued warnings on the upcoming G.A.S. Act, HR 3893, scheduled for a vote in the House on Friday. Donald J. Borut, executive director of the National League of Cities has bluntly said that "the goal of this draft legislation seems to be to pass every provision that didn’t make it into the recently-enacted energy bill."
    The National Environmental Trust has said that the bill “channels taxpayer dollars to oil companies, virtually ignores (…)

  • In a Nutshell
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Norla Antinoro
    It’s a gas shortage! Here we go again. I remember the last one and it was no fun. This one looks to be every bit as bogus and as bad for the ordinary citizens as the last one. The signs were there. Hurricane Katrina sent prices of fuel up. Then Hurricane Rita shut down all the refineries in the southern USA from North Carolina to Texas. There were rumblings that this would have repercussions. Gas prices were going to go up because the refineries had to shut down.
    Gas (…)

  • More Blood, Less Oil : The Failed U.S. Mission to Capture Iraqi Petroleum
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael T. Klare
    It has long been an article of faith among America’s senior policymakers — Democrats and Republicans alike — that military force is an effective tool for ensuring control over foreign sources of oil. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to embrace this view, in February 1945, when he promised King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia that the United States would establish a military protectorate over his country in return for privileged access to Saudi oil — a (…)

  • Stop Selling Our Heritage for Crooked Oil: Save Arctic Wildlife Refuge!
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Arctic Folly By Jimmy Carter www.washingtonpost.com
    Congress is about to make one of those big decisions that marks an era. Unless wiser heads prevail, it may do it badly — making the wrong decision in the wrong way and about the wrong place. At stake is America’s greatest wildlife sanctuary, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. To dissuade Congress from this environmental tragedy, Americans must rally, and quickly.
    Congress had its Pyrrhic energy victory this summer, with a new energy (…)

  • CHAVEZ WARNS BUSH AGAINST INVASION OF VENEZUELA TO SEIZE OIL RESERVES
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CHAVEZ OFFERS GUARANTEED SUPPLY OF OIL FOR 150 YEARS
    FREE FUEL TO US POOR DURING THE KATRINA CRISIS
    CHAVEZ CONTROLS 300 BILLION BARREL RESERVE TO US 20 BILLION BARRELS
    By Darryl Mason
    In an interview with US network ABC, on September 16, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez claimed he had proof the Bush administration were ready to invade his country in an attempt to seize control of some 300 billion barrels of oil.
    He warned the Bush administration to retreat from such aggression and (…)

  • Chavez & Fuel
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The donation of 300,000 barrels of fuel to U.S southern states probably is a political stunt by Pres.
    Chavez Frias but who could blame him, with American christian right leader Pat Robinson urging the U.S govt to ’take him out’ who wouldn’t be worried? Pres.
    Chavez is sending a message to Americans poor & working class that he isn’t their enemy,after all he isn’t sending American manufacturing jobs to China or Mexico neither is he destroying the livelihoods of American farmers or (…)

  • Venezuela sends cargo of 300,000 barrels of gasoline direct to Louisiana
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has confirmed that a cargo of 300,000 barrels of gasoline is on its way to the USA to help Southern States affected by Hurricane Katrina.
    The President as confirmed that before traveling to New York to attend the UN summit, Louisiana State Governor Kathleen Blanco phoned the Venezuelan President accepting his offer of help.
    Chavez Frias broke the news on arrival in the USA and has reminded reporters that the Venezuelan government had offered 8 (…)

  • Group: Internal memos show oil companies limited refineries to drive up prices
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) today exposed internal oil company memos that show how the industry intentionally reduced domestic refining capacity to drive up profits, RAW STORY has learned.
    The three internal memos from Mobil, Chevron and Texaco illustrate how the oil juggernauts reduced refining capacity and drove independent refiners out of business in an effort to increase prices. The highly confidential memos reveal a nationwide effort by American Petroleum (…)

  • Hurricane Katrina: FOR OIL?
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HURRICANE KATRINA---WHO BENEFITS? OVERTHROW OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, Part 80
    by Sherman H. Skolnick
    Some meteorologists contend there has been weather-warfare. That is, they say, that there have been two man-made hurricanes, Ivan [The Terrible], 2004, and Katrina, 2005. And, that these storms were created by technology long-known and directed to specific areas.
    One weatherman asserted that Russia has long claimed they can send extreme weather and turbulence from Siberia targeting the (…)

  • Explosion stops oil exports
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Oil exports from Iraq’s northern fields were completely halted on Saturday following a rebel attack on a major pipeline west of the oil centre of Kirkuk, an Iraqi oil industry official said.
    "We have some interruption in the pipeline. There are no exports at all right now," the official said on condition of anonymity.
    He said he had "no idea" when exports might resume since the scale of the damage had not yet been assessed.
    An official in charge of oil installation protection said the (…)