This blog will focus on political images I have found all around the Internet, though I will intersperse some commentary and quotes that I find interesting.
Showing posts with label gas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gas. Show all posts
Monday, December 10, 2012
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Bush & Co Still Cheating Middle America
From the Progress Report (1/16/2007)
Bush administration officials are ignoring the law and giving away tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to oil companies that are already swimming in cash. When oil companies drill on federal land and in coastal waters, they owe royalties to the federal government. The payments are the country's second-largest source of income, right behind taxes. However, the New York Times reports, "An eight-month investigation by the Interior Department’s chief watchdog has found pervasive problems in the government’s program for ensuring that companies pay the royalties they owe on billions of dollars of oil and gas pumped on federal land and in coastal waters." According to the report, "the agency’s data are often inaccurate, that its officials rely too heavily on statements by oil companies rather than actual records and that only about 9 percent of all oil and gas leases are being reviewed." As a result, billions of dollars that could be invested in the development of clean, renewable forms of energy are instead being used to subsidize outrageous compensation packages for oil company executives. Interior Department Inspector General Earl Devaney told Congress "Simply stated, short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior." Join the effort to get the Bush administration to stop giving away your money.
Bush administration officials are ignoring the law and giving away tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to oil companies that are already swimming in cash. When oil companies drill on federal land and in coastal waters, they owe royalties to the federal government. The payments are the country's second-largest source of income, right behind taxes. However, the New York Times reports, "An eight-month investigation by the Interior Department’s chief watchdog has found pervasive problems in the government’s program for ensuring that companies pay the royalties they owe on billions of dollars of oil and gas pumped on federal land and in coastal waters." According to the report, "the agency’s data are often inaccurate, that its officials rely too heavily on statements by oil companies rather than actual records and that only about 9 percent of all oil and gas leases are being reviewed." As a result, billions of dollars that could be invested in the development of clean, renewable forms of energy are instead being used to subsidize outrageous compensation packages for oil company executives. Interior Department Inspector General Earl Devaney told Congress "Simply stated, short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior." Join the effort to get the Bush administration to stop giving away your money.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Cheap Gas
As long as gas prices remain affordable, the U.S. government is not likely to take proactive steps to find alternative fuels. In the meantime, with massive quantities of the world's oil coming from Muslim states, we continue to feed money into the very culture that hates us and wars against us.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
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