Salazar: It’s not war on oil and gas; it’s taxation

04/06/2009
In case anyone finds the difference between war and larceny puzzling, US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar offers help.“This is not, as some have suggested, a war on the oil and gas industry,” Salazar assured directors of the American Petroleum Institute Mar. 19.“This,” according to the secretary’s analysis in a prepared text, is President Barack Obama’s program of change: “Restoring honesty and fiscal responsibility to the budget. Making hard choices. Seeing where we can get a better deal for the American taxpayer.”Troubling words, these.According to Salazar, “Interior has not systematically reexamined how the federal government is compensate...

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