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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m trying to make sense of why Senate Republicans have filibustered legislation that would rein in market speculators who have helped drive up the price of oil well beyond natural supply-and-demand forces. They do understand that it’s an election year, right? And that taking the side of Big Oil…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] A majority of Americans support opening public lands up to oil exploration-related drilling, but a bigger majority thinks the drilling will be more of a benefit to oil companies than to average consumers. These were the rather mixed findings of a poll released today by the Washington, D.C.,-based research firm…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] “Gas prices – $4, $5, no end in sight, because some in Washington are still saying no to drilling in America, no to independence from foreign oil. “Who can you thank for rising prices at the pump?” the announcer intones, and then you realize what you were hearing in the…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: Jim Gilmore and drilling “Someone has to do something for these people out there.” Don’t disagree in the slightest. But Jim Gilmore is trying to suggest that drilling in ANRW and offshore elsewhere around the continental U.S. is going to have an immediate impact on what we’re paying at…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Radical centrist.” The words don’t seem to go together, but then you listen to Mark Warner describe the concept that he’s trying to sell, and it makes a lot of sense. “We’re going to have a window in January of ’09, whether it’s McCain or Obama, and if we can’t…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: President Bush lifts executive ban on offshore drilling No, I’m not making some sort of environmental statement here. More a political one. You mean all he had to do was sign a new executive order, and that’s it? Of course not. The law banning offshore drilling dates back to…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Legislation from Chris Saxman that would dedicate future revenues and royalties from offshore drilling to Virginia’s Transportation Trust Fund appears to be in line for passage by the House of Delegates this week.
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Op-Ed by Sanford D. Horn Raise your hands if you know Yemen sold 13,000 barrels of crude oil and products each and every day during 2007 to the United States. OK, just raise your hands if you heard of Yemen in the first place. Yemen? Yes, Yemen. “Oh, good one! And ‘Yemen,’ that actually sounds…
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Bass Strategies Column by Skeet Reese From the time the weather began to warm early this year until now, every lake in the country has seen the local angling population hammer the resident bass with every bait and presentation under the sun. And now, with the return of summer’s heat, long days and rising water…
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Op-Ed by Edward R. Long On May 6, Democrat Sen. Harry Reid accused big oil companies of shutting down refineries temporarily to raise gasoline prices and rake in”obscene profits.” Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., stated that it would take too long to bring new sources online and that there would never be drilling for oil in…
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