Editorial: A looming political fight

12/01/2008
The interlude between presidencies, twilight of the 110th Congress, is the time to practice diplomacy, the time to praise cooperation, the time to voice hope for bipartisan policy-making. But the US oil and gas industry must not delude itself. From the Democratic presidency of Barack Obama and strongly Democratic 111th Congress, it faces an historic fight.Any doubt that this is so should have vanished when Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) deposed John Dingell of Michigan as chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Dingell has never been a fan of the oil and gas business. But he would listen to its positions on issues and sometimes compromise. Nothing in Waxman’s backgroun...

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