Off-Shore Drilling Circus Begins
The economic news and anxieties are certainly dominating the news today, but the off shore drilling circus starts in earnest today. On Friday,though, there was a bipartisan Energy Summit brought up by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse asks a key question to put all of this in context:
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To which he gets no answer. Which isn’t surprising when you note that there is little oil at stake, but a lot of taxpayer funds to be had.