May 22, 2012

Energy in the Time of Elections: A Saga

Llewellyn King, OilPrice.com

Where there's oil and gas, there's milk and honey.

That is the thrust of the American Petroleum Institute's report to the platform committees of the Republican and Democratic parties. It was previewed in Washington on May 15 by API President and CEO Jack Gerard, the oil industry's man on Earth, known for his tough attitudes to just about everything, but the Obama Administration in particular.

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