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WATCHING GOVERNMENT: A look back at 2006

01/01/2007
“Fast away, the old year passes.... Hail the new, ye lads and lasses!” But before saying goodbye to 2006, a look back at the year’s more remarkable moments in US oil and gas politics seems apt.Several moments were amusing. A few were significant. All hereby receive a “Watchy,” the annual award introduced in this column a year ago (OGJ, Jan. 2, 2006, p. 29). Recipients include the following...US President George W. Bush, who in his annual State of the Union address on Jan. 31, earned a “Bully Pulpit” Watchy when he said, “America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world. The best way to break this addiction...
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