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  • How America plotted to stop Kyoto deal
    9 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew Buncombe in Montreal
    A detailed and disturbing strategy document has revealed an extraordinary American plan to destroy Europe’s support for the Kyoto treaty on climate change.
    The ambitious, behind-the-scenes plan was passed to The Independent this week, just as 189 countries are painfully trying to agree the second stage of Kyoto at the UN climate conference in Montreal. It was pitched to companies such as Ford Europe, Lufthansa and the German utility giant RWE.
    Put (…)

  • Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq’s Oil Wealth
    30 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    While the Iraqi people struggle to define their future amid political chaos and violence, the fate of their most valuable economic asset, oil, is being decided behind closed doors.
    This report reveals how an oil policy with origins in the US State Department is on course to be adopted in Iraq, soon after the December elections, with no public debate and at enormous potential cost. The policy allocates the majority[1] of Iraq’s oilfields — accounting for at least 64% of the country’s oil (…)

  • Wisconsin Should Hold Oil Executives Accountable
    24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Miranda
    Wisconsin Governor Doyle’s administration will be holding a public hearing in Milwaukee on December 1st to ask corporate oil executives questions about record profits their companies amassed in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
    Under the authority of Wisconsin’s trade and consumer protection law, the Governor has subpoenaed oil company executives to appear in Wisconsin for this public hearing. Those served with subpoenas are: David O’Reilly, Chairman and CEO of (…)

  • Thousands in Mass. to get cheaper oil
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Delahunt, Chávez help broker deal
    By Michael Levenson and Susan Milligan, Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff
    A subsidiary of the Venezuelan national oil company will ship 12 million gallons of discounted home-heating oil to local charities and 45,000 low-income families in Massachusetts next month under a deal arranged by US Representative William D. Delahunt, a local nonprofit energy corporation, and Venezuela’s president, White House critic Hugo Chávez.
    The approximately $9 million (…)

  • US senators demand oil execs re-testify, under oath
    18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats demanded that oil company executives who testified last week about skyrocketing energy prices reappear before lawmakers and testify under oath, after news reports raised questions about the truthfulness of their testimony.
    Leading oil company executives long have denied taking part in a secretive energy task force run in 2001 by Vice President Dick Cheney .../... (AFP)
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051116/pl_afp/usoilenergypolitics

  • Bush, Congress Turn a Cold Shoulder To America’s Poor This Winter
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brian McAfee
    President Bush and Congress nixed winter heating aid for poor families 3 months after subsidizing oil companies. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said "this is not something I would be in favor of (using some of the oil profits to help the nations poor). That would be the equivalent of windfall profits tax" Bodman went on to say that any transfer of oil profits to programs to help the poor with heating this winter is not even under consideration.
    Some Democrats in (…)

  • Exxon Mobil Posts New Record for Profit
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Steve Quinn
    Exxon Mobil Corp. had a quarter for the record books. The world’s largest publicly traded oil company said Thursday high oil and natural-gas prices helped its third-quarter profit surge almost 75 percent to $9.92 billion, the largest quarterly profit for a U.S. company ever, and it was the first to ring up more than $100 billion in quarterly sales.
    Net income ballooned to $9.92 billion, or $1.58 per share, from $5.68 billion, or 88 cents per share, a year ago.
    Excluding (…)

  • Bid for More Home Heating Aid Fails in Senate
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Senate decided yesterday the money was not there for a substantial spending boost for the federal home heating program, deflecting arguments that soaring energy prices could force the poor to choose between heat and food this winter.
    Senators voted 54 to 43 in favor of a proposal to boost the fiscal 2006 budget for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program from $2.2 billion to $5.1 billion. A 60-vote majority was needed to approve new spending not coupled with equivalent spending (…)

  • Your Misery is OUR Gain! - Over inflated Gas Prices mystery solved!!
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Exxon, Shell net record profits
    Largest publicly traded oil company earns nearly $10 billion in third quarter, with rival posting $9 billion.
    By Steve quinn, Donna McWilliam
    Lee Raymond is chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp., which earned nearly $10 billion in the third quarter. DALLAS — Exxon Mobil Corp. rewrote the corporate record books Thursday as the oil company’s third-quarter earnings soared to almost $10 billion and it became the first public company ever with quarterly (…)

  • Tesla is Here "A Message to the World"
    26 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    OSEN makes cannon-ball splash opening with release of disclosure testimonial videos
    Earth-shattering never-before-seen video testimonials released for the first time, featuring seven energy inventors. Affidavit witnesses urge an end to suppression of new energy technologies that could eliminate our suicidal dependence on fossil fuel.
    by Sterling D. Allan, Executive News Editor Open Source Energy Network
    Photo by Carmen Muller (OSEN) Carmen Miller (OSEN), daughter of the late inventor, (…)