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• Mandate Watch: Obama Backs Off Promise to Pass Windfall Profits Tax on Big Oil

  Off the Reuters wire: CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama is not planning to implement a windfall profit tax on oil companies because prices have dropped below $80 a barrel, an aide said on Tuesday... Obama, who signaled early in...

  Posted by David Sirota on December 3, 2008 10:16 AM
  Tags: energy

• Cuba and China Working to Drill In Gulf, Say Those Who Insisted Saddam Was About to Nuke America

  Everywhere you look - from Republican congressional press conferences, to newspaper op-ed pages - the political world is abuzz with the news that China is drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, thanks to cooperation with Cuba. How, ask...

  Posted by David Sirota on September 8, 2008 8:45 PM
  Tags: energy lying liars

• The Swing-State Politics of Energy and Taxes

  The meandering 9-hour drive from Denver to Jackson Hole, Wyoming - which I completed yesterday - takes you through one strand of the Rocky Mountain West's sprawling oil and gas web. You start seeing oil rigs in Weld County just...

  Posted by David Sirota on July 31, 2008 8:52 AM
  Tags: energy Land Politics

• Mark Udall Takes Up the Challenge & Shows How It's Done

  Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO), the presumptive Democratic nominee for the Senate in the energy-producing state of Colorado, issued this scathing statement in response to Hillary Clinton's demand yesterday that all lawmakers support her pathetic, McCain-style gas-tax pander: "Senator Clinton claimed...

  Posted by David Sirota on May 2, 2008 2:02 PM
  Tags: energy

• REPORT: U.S. Taxpayers Getting Ripped Off By Oil Companies

  The Wall Street Journal reports that "a panel of outside experts has told the Interior Department that the government may not be getting full value for the mineral rights it sells private industry, and that the federal royalty system needs...

  Posted by David Sirota on December 18, 2007 10:00 AM
  Tags: energy

• Salt Water As Clean Fuel?

  Quite an interesting possibility....

  Posted by David Sirota on September 12, 2007 7:16 AM
  Tags: energy

• Montana Energy Regulators Challenge Bush Administration In Court

  Following the brouhaha over SCHIP funding, it looks like the Bush administration has another state-based revolt on its hands, this one out of Montana: "The Montana Public Service Commission said Tuesday it will join a lawsuit alleging the federal government...

  Posted by David Sirota on August 22, 2007 3:23 PM
  Tags: energy

• Land Politics Report 8/6/07: The Coalition Between Unions, Sportsmen and Conservationists

  With so much going on in Land Politics, I've decided to start filing semi-regular reports on the issue like I do on the trade issue, since (like the trade issue) few - if any - cover it in a comprehensive...

  Posted by David Sirota on August 6, 2007 8:39 AM
  Tags: energy environment Land Politics New conservation coalition

• Dems Adapting to Shifting Energy & Land Politics

  Last week, I wrote a long post over at Working Assets exploring how Land Politics and Energy Politics are really changing out in the Rocky Mountain West. No longer is this region's politics an oil and gas monopoly. Other factors...

  Posted by David Sirota on July 13, 2007 6:16 AM
  Tags: energy environment Great American West

• My Visit to the Elite's Fact-Free Fantasy World

  When I wrote Hostile Takeover, I envisioned it as something like a Hitchiker's Guide to Wall Street and Washington's Galaxy - a handbook folks could use to see the real truth when they watch television shows about politics and the...

  Posted by David Sirota on June 26, 2007 8:47 AM
  Tags: energy health care Media Bias/Idiocy war on the middle class

• SF CHRON: Dems Drafting Bill to Steamroll State Global Warming Laws

  You have to read this to believe it. In other state-related news, the National Conference of State Legislatures just sent out this email bragging that: "A record-breaking 3,400 people have already registered for this year's Legislative Summit in Boston, August...

  Posted by David Sirota on June 6, 2007 9:13 AM
  Tags: California global warming culture of corruption energy environment

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