HOUSTON — Oil and gas companies have accelerated their spending on lobbying faster than any other industry, training their gusher of profits on Washington to fight new taxes on drilling and slow efforts to move the nation off fossil fuels.
The industry spent .5 million lobbying Congress and federal agencies in the first three months [...]
You conveniently demand equality to the rewarding things in life: CEO’s, politicians, generals, doctors, lawyers, and President.
But you sure are quiet when it comes to the dirty, dangerous, and backbreaking jobs of life:
-soldiers to fight and die in wars
-garbage pickup
-sewage maintenance
-firefighting
-oil and gas drilling
-coal miners
-truck driving
-building construction and road work [...]
Im doing a research paper on Crude Oil and Gas Prices. Please help any good answers on the subject. Besides Saudi Arabia where does America Puchase its Crude Oil?
Or will they do like they did this time and say it was the republicans fault?
sometimes people take credit for things that maybe they had an effect on, and maybe they didn’t. But over the last couple of years, one of the things we have been doing is we have tried to provide for drilling [...]
when just 50 miles off the Florida coastline the Chinese government is drilling for oil under Cuban leases?
The China-Cuba connection also appeared in an editorial Monday in Investor’s Business Daily, which wrote that "the U.S. Congress has voted consistently to keep 85 percent of America’s offshore oil and gas off-limits, while China and Cuba drill [...]
First, I’m a free-market proponent, not a tree-hugger. Second: These wells can *start* at more than 2 miles under water and have already reached over 35,000 feet (nearly 7 miles) total depth.
Geothermal requires drilling, too, but never runs out of energy and has few of the risks associated with petrol drills.
Any cost/benefit or [...]
tHis actually seems to be the easiest, and most logical option that they probably should have tried first…..What do you think?
"BP to install new containment system
Doug Suttles, chief operating officer of BP Exploration & Production, said the top kill pumping started at 1 p.m. CDT on May 26. The operation involved repeatedly pumping awhile and [...]
He said yesterday that we need to start here in America. Why can’t we produce our own oil and gas. They had blocked the drilling about 30 years ago here. We need to get something done.
Please don’t tell me to end the war, that is something obvious. Give me some more reasons.
Will he keep taxes low and cut federal spending?
Will he allow more exploration and drilling for oil and gas and allow more refineries to be built, thus cutting energy prices?
Will he keep government from micromanaging our lives?
When Bush lifted the Presidential ban on offshore drilling on July 14th, oil and gas prices immediately fell as a direct result.
Bush asked Congress to follow suit by lifting the Congressional ban on offshore drilling which would lower gas prices even more.
Is the Democrats dislike for Bush greater than their desire to service the need [...]
Transocean Drops After Axelrod Comments on Drilling (Update1)
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April 30 (Bloomberg) — Transocean Ltd., Halliburton Co. and McMoRan Exploration Co. dropped in New York trading after President Barack Obama’s chief strategist said no new offshore drilling will be allowed until this month’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill is [...]
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"HOUSTON — A new group will pool Texas’ brightest minds to come up with better and safer ways of drilling and producing oil and natural gas in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, Gov. Rick Perry announced Tuesday.
The Gulf Project will focus on developing and testing current equipment as well as new technologies for [...]
Check here for Obama’s dealings with oil company employee’s and his accepting large donations. http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obamas_oil_spill.html
Here is some of the facts. Obama has accepted more than 3,000 from individuals who work for companies in the oil and gas industry and their spouses.
Two of Obama’s bundlers are top executives at oil companies and are listed on [...]
Is there a checklist for negotiating an oil and gas lease in Texas. Also, I have been offerered an Lease deal for 1/4 of 00 and for 20% for the right to drill under my property in Fort Worth. Is this a good deal?
When is it suitable to apply for oil and Gas Company Jobs( Drilling) in Alberta, Canada?
From overseas with Perm residence status and APEGGA membership are there any specifics one should know when applying for Jobs in Alberta?
Maybe they could explain why 4 American OIL Companies own ALL the OIL and Gas coming out of Iraq…
Maybe they could explain why there is a pipeline from Iraq through Afghanistan built to convey the Oil….
Maybe they could explain why the Military protect Oil drilling in Iraq and not the people…..
Maybe they want to consider [...]
ok hillary,and democrats/liberals always call for the release of U.S. strategic oil reserves when prices on the market climb,why not call on the president to begin aggressive oil drilling programs in the gulf of mexico,coast of florida,coast of california,alaska,demand wind farms be put off the coast of nantucket sound(where weathy dems/libs live teddy kennedy),demand that [...]
John McCain has said he supports greatly expanded offshore exploration and drilling. Barack Obama has made statements, such as in the last debate, that he would “look at” offshore oil and gas exploration.
The ACT! for America Congressional Scorecard sheds light on the positions of the two candidates. In 2006, Senate Vote 219 passed with [...]
The Associated Press reported Thursday that it obtained an email from the Minerals Management Services’ Gulf Coast offices that said the offshore drilling moratorium now includes new shallow-water drilling in the Gulf. A spokesperson for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar denied the claim.
Landry said increasing the moratorium’s scope to shallow-water drilling will have dire consequences.
“If [...]
"Federal regulators approved Wednesday the first new Gulf of Mexico oil well since President Barack Obama lifted a brief ban on drilling in shallow water, even while deepwater projects remain frozen after the massive BP spill.
The Minerals Management Service granted a new drilling permit sought by Bandon Oil and Gas for a site about 50 [...]
While the same Congress prevents access to 10.4 Billion Barrels of oil in a 3.13 sq. mile patch of ANWR??? I think I should be able to sue CONGRESS for high gas and oil prices. What a bunch of hypocrites!!!
Domestic oil production has declined, to 1.9 billion in 2007 from 3.1 billion barrels in [...]
I’ve noticed alot of people complaining about Obama’s handling of the BP oil spill in the gulf region and I say this – the people in the states affected most by the oil spill, you can’t have it both ways, if you want less government and less Obama, you can not complain if a government [...]
If he is so intent on doing something NOW, why doesn’t he just freeze the price of gas at a decent price???
Or put more of the existing rigs in TEXAS to work if he wants more oil????
Drilling for oil in our oceans, and trying to drill for oil in Alaska, is NOT the solution for [...]
Oil and gas are being pumped out of the ground at a rate we’ve never seen before and being displaced into the atmosphere IE. Airplanes, Ships spewing their exhausts and minerals being mined and going to other parts of the world from their origins? Would all this movement of resources have an effect on the [...]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100513/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_poll
The poll also found that the public still supports the idea of drilling offshore for oil and gas. By 50 percent to 38 percent, more people favor increased coastal drilling for oil and gas than oppose it.