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Mary Landrieu 
Fri Jun 04, 2010 at 06:31:29 AM MST
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There is a meme that I am starting to hear from the Republicans and the Democrats that have become wholly owned subsidiaries of the oil industry. It is the idea that there will be massive job losses from the suspension of deep water drilling in the Gulf and elsewhere. Rule one in any Republicans play book; keep the issue isolated so you never see the big picture. This is because any time you look at Republican policies in the larger context they fall completely apart.
There are about 1.3 million jobs in oil production in the United States. Roughly 25% of them are in Louisiana. This is due in large part to the very friendly environment to oil development that exists in the state. Depending on what study you look at the Bayou State is either the 3rd or 1st most corrupt state in the nation. Its corruption is not a partisan thing; it is an equal opportunity corrupt state with the likes "Dollar" Bill Jefferson and Sen. David Vitter. Can there be any doubt that large amounts of oil industry money have been part of this corruption.
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Wed May 12, 2010 at 06:19:18 AM MST
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The coverage of the Senate Energy and Work Place Committee hearing yesterday has been rather predictable; the three witnesses from the three companies that are involved in the Deep Horizon drilling rig explosion were always going to point at each other when the question of who is at fault for the explosion and massive ongoing spill of crude oil into the source of 20% of the nations commercial fishing, the Gulf of Mexico.
However there were a few things that came out which are going to be of more than passing interest going forward that have not received the attention that they deserve. It thought I'd use this post to point them out.
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