Big break for big oil, larger burden for taxpayers

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Whistleblowers help recover half-billion in energy revenues - but billions more owed taxpayers on public lands use

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"… oil or gas, which the government could resell or stash away in the federal Strategic Petroleum Reserve. But in 2008 the Interior Department’s inspector general documented  …"

Did taxpayers lose on deal for oil field?

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"… 22, the White House ordered the sale of 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves, which are maintained for national emergencies; retaining Elk Hills would …"

"… Becker said, noting that the recent announcement of the release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves had an immediate effect of pushing prices down.“No, oil wasn’t this h …"