Trump continued to try to sell US policy by promising the fossil fuel industry that if he returned to the White House, he would immediately approve all of their projects.
President Biden is going to urge Congress to impose what is essentially a use it or lose it policy on Big Oil regarding federal leases.
Big Oil chose to reward their shareholders and their CEOs after record profits, instead of funneling the money into production. Republicans blame Democrats for this and for the price of gas.
During a speech at the White House, President Biden made it clear that climate change measures don’t cause rising gas prices.
Hospitals, doctors, and nurses are begging for supplies, but Donald Trump is trying to help the oil and natural gas industry.
Republicans are inserting a rider in the omnibus spending bill eliminating the ban on oil exports developed to protect American consumers
TransCanada claims they need more time to work with American officials but the real reason is to avoid a losing battle with President Obama
Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that any budget deal must contain new revenue, and he specifically mentioned eliminating subsidies to Big Oil.
Republicans have acquiesced to a foreign corporation’s demand they be given the authority to raise gas prices, endanger the water supply, and impede farmers right to produce crops to feed the nation.
Right wing values are all about profit values –and nothing more. Whether poisoning our water, triggering a war or making us pay the receipt for their economic stupidity.
There are a spate of new bills in the house that were probably written by the oil companies. Everything Exxon wants, Exxon gets
John Boehner’s invested in Canada’s tar sand oil companies and then lied about the number of jobs the Keystone pipeline would create in what could be a criminal case of conflict of interest.
With the BP oil spill still raging after a month of disinformation and stonewalling from both BP and the Obama Administration as well as the catastrophe of the Massey coal mine explosion just two weeks prior to the BP Gulf disaster, the left and right are playing their trite and expected “blame game” without acknowledging the actual systemic realities of a Government that enables BP and Massey to rape and plunder the earth for the sake of profit at the expense of the environment and human life.