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Texas Congressman Funnels Government Money To Oil Interests

Posted on October 29 2009 by Congress Watcher

Congressman Joe Barton managed to create an earmark of a million dollars of government spending to support fossil fuel research and development that aims to convince Americans that the dirtiest, most inefficient sources of fossil fuel energy, such as oil shale, oil sands, coal, and industrial sludges, are somehow sources of “clean” energy.

GOP in Congress Soil Themselves With Tar Sands and Oil Shale

Posted on June 13 2008 by Congress Watcher

According to the sponsors of H.R. 6211, the American people are supposed to regard it as an “opportunity” to have big oil corporations come onto our public lands at a bargain basement rate, take whatever wealth they can find, sell it at a huge profit that won’t be shared with the rest of us, and then leave what they found as a scarred, poison wreck of its former self. Sorry, but I don’t see the “opportunity” in that.

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