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April 9, 2012

Meet Big Oil's Evil Lord Voldemort

Steven Mufson, Washingotn Post


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Ask oil lobbyists, oil executives, and former employees and board members of the American Petroleum Institute how they describe API President Jack N. Gerard, and one thing they don’t say is soft. One calls him a “hard-nosed guy.” Another says he is “a political animal” who “loves a fight.” Yet another dubs him “Voldemort.” . .

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