Exxon Pressures Government To Lift Oil Export Restrictions
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December 20, 2013

Via Desmogblog:

Thu, 2013-12-19 06:00Farron Cousins

It wasn’t long ago that the dirty energy industry and their friends in Congress and the media were screaming that we needed to open up every corner of America to oil and gas drilling in order to lower energy costs and help protect our country from oil-rich countries who don’t like the United States. 

We were promised that increased domestic production would lower our fuel costs, strengthen our national security, and help ensure our economic prosperity.  And even after the Obama Administration agreed to open up even more federal lands to dril...

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