API: Major Labor-Management Announcement Coming Tomorrow (Update)

Officials at the American Petroleum Institute inform me that API President and CEO Jack Gerard and representatives of 15 labor unions will make a major labor-management announcement during a call-in news conference Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Eastern. In an e-mail from API, I...

2009 Energy Bill Will Punish Oil Consumers

American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard issued back-to-back statements today related to the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. About the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate on the...

Crude Oil Price to Jump 31 Percent!

By Bob McCarty at BobMcCarty.com When Rush Limbaugh mentioned Goldman Sachs’ prediction about the price of oil on his radio show today, I decided to share the statement American Petroleum Institute President Jack...

Obama Budget Risks Nation’s Energy Security

President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget proposal makes it appear he’s ready, willing and able to bury Americans in new taxes, place the nation’s energy security in peril and put  six-million American jobs...

Florida House Votes in Favor of Offshore Drilling...Too Late

Though the Florida House of Representatives voted in favor of it yesterday, a move to open state waters to offshore oil drilling appears to have run out of time in the legislative session, according to a Miami Herald report via Upstream Online.com. American Petroleum...

API Slams EPA’s Proposed Endangerment Finding

Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, issued the following statement today, slamming the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed endangerment finding for greenhouse gases: "“The...

Oil Industry Leader Sends Message to Congress

American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard sent a letter to members of Congress Friday.  Below is the text of that letter with helpful links added (by me): "Dear Member of Congress: As the Congress...

Grassroots Effort Results in Proposal to Open New Offshore Areas

A pro-drilling grassroots effort launched launched Sept. 9 appears to have paid off, according to my friends in the oil and gas industry.  On Friday morning, officials with the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service announced the agency is proposing to open...

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