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11-15-2005, 09:56 PM
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WA Post: Oil execs lied to Congress last week about secret Cheney meetings
Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force
By Dana Milbank and Justin Blum Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, November 16, 2005; Page A01 A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress. The document, obtained this week by The Washington Post, shows that officials from Exxon Mobil Corp., Conoco (before its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil Co. and BP America Inc. met in the White House complex with the Cheney aides who were developing a national energy policy, parts of which became law and parts of which are still being debated. In a joint hearing last week of the Senate Energy and Commerce committees, the chief executives of Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and ConocoPhillips said their firms did not participate in the 2001 task force. The president of Shell Oil said his company did not participate "to my knowledge," and the chief of BP America Inc. said he did not know. Continues: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...111501842.html |
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11-15-2005, 09:58 PM
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No wonder the GOP oil puppet who chaired the meeting was so adamantly opposed to putting these execs under oath.
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11-16-2005, 06:05 AM
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 Testifying at a Senate hearing last week were, from left, Lee R. Raymond of Exxon Mobil, David J. O'Reilly of Chevron, James J. Mulva of ConocoPhillips, Ross Pillari of BP America and John Hofmeister of Shell Oil. |
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11-16-2005, 06:06 AM
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if their salaries weren't outrageous I might believe that they are putting just as much money back into R&D as they are making |
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11-16-2005, 06:52 AM
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11-16-2005, 07:02 AM
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that's a good point, I'll conceed that |
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11-16-2005, 07:35 AM
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Turns the story into a one news cycle event at most. Opposition will reference the meeting repeatedly but your position is one of honesty and being forthright so the general population are more likely to believe you in the future. Now they've gone and bent themselves over the barrel. Even if nothing duplicitous occurred in the meeting they've taken a one day news story and turned it into a multi month news story. Hell, Michael Moore may even do a mockumentary on the subject. Put down the shovel boys and grab the rope, get out of the hole. I'll defend their profits, salaries, right to do business, etc. But this is stupidity and there's no defending that. These f***ers need me on their payroll to slap them when this stupid **** is proposed in the first place. |
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11-16-2005, 09:04 AM
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I wonder if they got a ''special'' card that when they use it at the gas pump if they get it for like $.50/gal.....
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11-16-2005, 09:32 AM
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No **** they lied. Bastards
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11-16-2005, 04:41 PM
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11-16-2005, 05:10 PM
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11-16-2005, 05:20 PM
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 Talk about spin. These companies didn't simply give Cheney their "input" or "advocate" for their industry (an industry in which both Cheney and Bush are/were players.) These oil and energy companies essentially wrote their own legislation and purchased their own policy from a WH that is always for sale to the highest bidder. Bush and Cheney are their men on the inside. Anybody remember when Dim Son announced that Big Polluters should be allowed to police themselves? |
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11-16-2005, 05:47 PM
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Bushenomics
It is truly time to change the way we speak about this administration's economic policies. The old words -- conservative, liberal, Keynesian, stimulus, supply side, job creation, deficits, deficit reduction and so on -- just swirl around and help them hide the truth in the fog. Bushenomics is something different. It is also very simple. Bushenomics is the use of the government to take regular people's money and give it to rich people and corporations. The genius of Bushenomics has been selling it to the voters as something that's good for them. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-...s_b_10643.html |
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11-16-2005, 08:02 PM
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Pat Bowlen may make more , but we dont have to buy tickets ... again another Item we can miss , we cant miss oil and gas ......... So while you did have a point , it was a miss cause oil and Gas are things we cant do without ( Heating houses transport etc.....) yet ..... Now if there was another form of energy we could use , then your point would be on more solid ground ......... |
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11-16-2005, 09:40 PM
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 His argument reminds me of another member of the OM conservative brain trust who tried to argue that the price of a gallon of gas was now comparable to the price of a gallon of milk and was, therefore, nothing to complain about. |
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11-17-2005, 07:15 AM
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