Thread: Tomorrow, the new House leaders will take on our Big Oil energy policy.
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Old 01-19-2007, 07:29 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sgtdmski View Post
Get your facts straight. The previous contacts were negotiated by the Department of Interior in 1998.....Hmmm whose department was it at this time? How quickly we forget, Bill Clinton's.

These leases were negotiated in good faith by the oil companies with the government. Now the government is attempting to go back and change them. This is not a way to do business. Nor is it a very legal manuever. If this passes the Senate, I find it highly unlikely it will pass judicial review.

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Lets see, who was in control of congress in 1998? Republicans. (not to say that the Democrats aren't possibly just as guilty)
Negotiated in Good faith? You mean paying senators and reps big money(through 'donations' to there campaign funds), or being given perks by the oil lobbiests. It is a legal manuever if the original 'negotiations' wheren't influenced by anything other than the people of the senator's or reps given area, which is not three case.
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