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  • Big oil’s bigtime looting
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    PRESIDENT BUSH yesterday told ABC-TV, ’’there ought to be zero tolerance of people breaking the law during an emergency such as this, whether it be looting or price-gouging at the gasoline pump or taking advantage of charitable giving or insurance fraud."
    Zero tolerance is meaningless when the White House lets the biggest looters of Hurricane Katrina walk off with billions of dollars.
    We are not referring to the people you currently see in endless footage, (…)

  • Will oil-supply disruption give Bush carte blanche to invade Venezuela?
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    Several atmospheric conditions came together which was described by the National Weather Service as the “perfect storm.” This monster of a storm sunk the Andrea Gail along with her captain, Captain Billy Tyne ... Hollywood even made a movie starring George Clooney.
    The reason why I ask if Katrina is our ’perfect storm’ is because the oil industry took one on the nose when many refineries were hit by this monster storm.
    * This past June the FX channel aired a (…)

  • Selling Out American Public Interest to Oil Industry
    1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    As one notorious example of selling out public interest to the oil industry, the Senate has passed the Energy Bill that favors corporate interests by increasing gas prices and enacting toothless policies on oil demand, production and imports. At the heart of the fight in this bill is to allow oil drilling in the Alaskan sanctuary, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). However, the House of Representatives can reject it by using a deceptive budget maneuver to thwart the Senate’s tacit (…)

  • The Clock is Ticking, Mr. Bush
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I’m confused.
    The news report today, that in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, said that five million people in the Gulf states would be without power for 6 to 8 weeks, was followed by an advisement that gas for your car, home heating oil and natural gas prices would rise.
    Maybe I’m not the brightest bulb in the box, but aren’t we still in a free-market, supply and demand economy? And with five million people not using much of our precious energy supplies - not driving, not using (…)

  • Chavez Offers Cheap Gas to Poor in U.S.
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AVANA, Cuba - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, popular with the poor at home, offered on Tuesday to help needy Americans with cheap supplies of gasoline.
    "We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor communities in the United States," the populist leader told reporters at the end of a visit to Communist-run Cuba.
    Chavez did not say how Venezuela would go about providing gasoline to poor communities. Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA owns Citgo, which has 14,000 gas (…)

  • How Those Big Bucks End Up in Big Oil’s Pockets
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Steven Mufson
    When oil prices spiked — and oil profits soared — 26 years ago, virtually every newspaper intern in America (including me) was dispatched to gasoline stations to collect quotes from irate motorists. Big Oil was viewed as public enemy number one: Congress convened hearings to skewer oil industry execs, regulatory agencies investigated pricing, and some news organizations rented helicopters to scour the waters (in vain) for signs of oil tankers floating offshore just waiting (…)

  • Congress gives constituents a Bi-Partisan porking...
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It is now official; both Democratic and Republican politicians know that you, the voter, will bend over and spread for them, and they have decided to drive it home. In one of the largest successful bipartisan efforts since the original 9/11 legislation, Congress has created an energy bill that is transparent in its fellation of oil companies, and sodomization of the people it should serve. Sen. John McCain, possibly one of the last honorable politicians alive, rightly dubbed this the "No (…)

  • United States partners with terrorists ... who is the real “Evil Doer”?
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    VHeadline.com guest commentarist Mary MacElveen writes: A statement made by Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman in relation to Saudi Arabia, truly boggles the mind where he said, “As the world’s largest producer and as the world’s largest consumer, our two countries have a special relationship." He then went onto say “We are, at least in certain respects, partners" ... he made these statements earlier in the year with his Saudi counterpart Ali al-Naimi.
    As we all know (…)

  • On Capitol Hill, A Flurry of GOP Victories
    31 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Capitol Hill, A Flurry of GOP Victories
    Key Measures Advance After Long Delays
    By Charles Babington and Justin Blum
    After years of partisan impasses and legislative failures, Congress in a matter of hours yesterday passed or advanced three far-reaching bills that will allocate billions of dollars and set new policies for guns, roads and energy.
    The measures sent to President Bush for his signature will grant $14.5 billion in tax breaks for energy-related matters and devote $286 (…)

  • Energy Adviser Who Solicited Enron to Help Write Nat’l Energy Policy to Be Named Chair of FERC
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Energy Adviser Who Solicited Enron to Help Write Nat’l Energy Policy to Be Named Chair of FERC
    By Jason Leopold
    The audacity inside the Bush administration never ceases to amaze.
    The latest example of chutzpah from Bush and co. is the announcement that Joseph Kelliher, a former policy adviser with the Department of Energy who currently serves as a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency that controls the country’s natural gas industry, hydroelectric (…)