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November 16, 2005
More Administration And Oil Nonsense
The Washington Post reports that oil executives met with Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force in 2001. That is not a surprise. I think most people assumed that happened, I know I did. Knowing how the administration worked, I thought that Cheney met with all his oil company pals and together they wrote an energy policy that would significantly profit the Oil Industry. And guess what, it has. The real "surprise" is that oil company executives all denied meeting with the White House during Congressional hearings last week.
The document, obtained this week by The Washington Post, shows that officials from Exxon Mobil Corp., Conoco (before its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil Co. and BP America Inc. met in the White House complex with the Cheney aides who were developing a national energy policy, parts of which became law and parts of which are still being debated.
In a joint hearing last week of the Senate Energy and Commerce committees, the chief executives of Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and ConocoPhillips said their firms did not participate in the 2001 task force. The president of Shell Oil said his company did not participate "to my knowledge," and the chief of BP America Inc. said he did not know.
Chevron was not named in the White House document, but the Government Accountability Office has found that Chevron was one of several companies that "gave detailed energy policy recommendations" to the task force. In addition, Cheney had a separate meeting with John Browne, BP's chief executive, according to a person familiar with the task force's work; that meeting is not noted in the document.
The whole thing makes me sick. As a nation, we have developed a bankrupt morality. Too many of us accept this type of behavior from our business and government leaders, either because we make money off of them or they expouse some simplistic moral principle. We need to stand up on our own two feet and start taking responsibility for what is happening to our country.
Posted by Chip Spear at November 16, 2005 8:43 AM
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