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Political culture mangles energy and ruins lives

03/19/2007
Who in the oil and gas industry has never marveled at the ability of high-voltage politics in Washington, DC, to mangle energy issues?An energy-hungry country gulls itself with fantasies about price-gouging and energy independence when its political culture craves power more than truth.The distorting potential of this culture has been on ugly display recently in a controversy unrelated to energy.Political reaction was shrill to the Mar. 6 conviction of I. Lewis Libby, former chief of staff of Vice-President Dick Cheney, for perjury and obstruction.“It’s about time someone in the Bush Administration has been held accountable for the campaign to manipulate intelligence and discr...
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