Big Oil Delivers Its To-Do List-- And It's Not To Dare Do List--To The Congressmembers It Has Bought

[kpete]

If you look at the chart of all the Members of the House who have gotten six-figure bribes from Big Oil so far this year, you will notice a lot of strategy. Obviously a great deal of money is going into bolster the GOP leadership that backs Big Oil's taxpayer subsidies and anti-environmental agenda: Speaker John Boehner ($218,850), Whip Kevin McCarthy ($172,200), Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp ($140,000), Energy Committee Chairman Fred Upton ($127,000) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor ($121,800). And Big Oil is heavily pushing two of their most slavish supporters, Rick Berg (ND- $245,450) and Denny Rehberg (MT- $190,070), for Senate seats.




Just coincidental, but yesterday was also an announcement by the big Oil Industry lobbying outfit, the American Petroleum Institute (API) that their to-do list for the congressional shills is ready, "the latest signal that the oil industry will play a major role in the upcoming election."

Basically what they want is everyone to just shut up about subsidies and taxes and just get rid of more regulations.

Some of API’s key recommendations:
dramatically expand offshore leasing to include the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts;
streamline the rulemaking process for energy regulations;
and immediately approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline.



The report also rails against efforts by liberal Democrats to repeal billions of dollars in tax breaks for the largest integrated oil companies.

“Misguided proposals to further increase taxes on the industry would have the unintended and negative effect of actually reducing government revenues, jeopardizing hundreds of thousands of jobs and reducing domestic energy production."

MORE:
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2012/05/big-oil-delivers-its-to-do-list-and-its.htmlhttp://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/227409-oil-lobby-gives-wish-list-to-dems-gop

[Odin2005]

1. Rick Berg. So now the Big Oil takeover of ND begins.

I warned people that Big Oil would take over North Dakota!