Billionaire T. Boone Pickens says he’s “fed up” with Washington.He recalls one of his greatest victories as once getting Republican Senator Tom Coburn to sign off on an energy proposal that included a natural gas user-fee. “He wouldn’t pay a...
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T. Boone Pickens, founder of BP Capital LLC.
Pickens: Money Misspent on Senate
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BHP Billiton Ltd.'s United Kingdom Petroleum, in Liverpool Bay.
Washington Daybook: Minerals etc.
Transparency. It’s a concept that people in Washington and beyond the Beltway love to talk about and rarely embrace. Today, Exxon Mobil, BHP Billiton and other oil and mining companies would have to disclose what they pay each country they...
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Sinatra sits in front of a sign before the arrival of Mitt Romney at a house party in Clive, Iowa.
RNC Chair: Romney No Dog-Eater
The campaign is going to the dogs. First, President Barack Obama took a jab at Republican Mitt Romney today with an allusion to the 1983 family road trip in which Romney put the family dog in a kennel on the...
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A natural gas station in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Natural Gas-Guzzlers: Guvs Pitching
It’s not every day that governors pitch potential vendors on a request for proposal. But yesterday, the governors of Oklahoma and Colorado met with executives from General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Fiat SpA’s Chrysler Group LLC, to ask...
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Steam and smoke from a coal-fired power plant.
Energy Planning: Ohio’s Brown Targeted by Anonymous Donors
A nonprofit organization that supports free markets and curbing regulation is airing television ads in Ohio attacking Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown on energy policy. American Commitment, which formed in April, is spending about $1.2 million on two ads that began...
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President Barack Obama at the Maljamar Cooperative Association Unit in Roswell, New Mexico on March 21, 2012.
Obama Shadowed by Republican Group on Energy Policy in Key States
A Republican group is attacking President Obama’s energy policies in the same six battleground states where Obama’s re-election campaign has been defending them. Crossroads GPS, a non-profit organization with ties to Republican strategist Karl Rove, will start its $1.7 million...
Read more »Magic Number of the Day: 81
That’s the number of electoral votes in the six states where President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign began airing a television commercial this week that touts his record on energy policy and links likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney to “Big Oil.”...
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