Election Worries Delay U.S. Refinery Report-Source

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

What happened to decisive leadership George?

By Tom Doggett

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A government advisory panel will delay a report on ways to boost U.S. oil refining capacity because the Bush administration wants to avoid a fight over environmental regulations before the national elections, according to a source knowledgeable about the report.



The report by the National Petroleum Council to Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham had been scheduled for release on Thursday and was eagerly awaited by the oil industry, which saw U.S. crude oil prices hit a record $50.47 a barrel this week.


A spokeswoman for the panel, Carla Byrd, said the report would be delayed because Abraham had a scheduling conflict, as did some other members of the group, that forced this week's meeting to be canceled.


An Energy Department spokeswoman, Jeanne Lopatte, said the Nov. 2 election played no role in the delay. "There's no big conspiracy here ... it's just a scheduling issue," she said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=nm/energy_oil_report_dc

[Eye and Monkey]

1. Everything's fine, fine, fine.

[Fovea]

2. Not the Soul Coughing line that went through my mind.

"He flicks an ash, like a wild loose comma...

Ash hits the oil around the pump...

Travels to the pump and the pump explodes...

Witness said he saw the car jump..."

--City of Motors.

It just seems like the Bush oil/energy policy is just so.

And by the way. How long are we going to let energy oligarchs
suck our country dry? Their wealth is already obscene, and the source of unspeakable hubris on both 'sides' of this war on terra.

[Eye and Monkey]

6. nice catch - actually "The Idiot Kings" from Irresistible Bliss

Everything is filling out
Everything is going as planned, yeah
Everything moves along
Everything is fine, fine, fine

[Rose Siding]

3. I'm sure no one will notice

Oh, listen. CNN's running those Gallup numbers again.

[UpInArms]

4. "just a scheduling issue"

yeah, right - we wouldn't want to screw up *Co's scheduled raping and pillaging.

:nuke:

[Rose Siding]

5. Flex time

He probably has a parent-teacher meeting. Just because the ENTIRE oil industry has been waiting for this particular report on this particular day doesn't mean it should interfere with Bush Family Values, now does it?

[54anickel]

7. ARRRGH!!! Just when I was making headway with my "Sportsmen

for Bush" buddy! These laxed environmental policies in favor of the oil companies were what I told him to watch for!!! What damned good is your blessed automatic whatever type of deer hunting rifle if the environoment is so trashed you'd have to go to Canada to hunt!

Sh*t, I'll just have to send this article off to him, but he'll buy the scheduling conflict defense lock, stock and barrel. F*ck Shrub and his backers, they deserve the idiot!

[Moderator]

8. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=871345