"… and derivatives in the U.S. They make jet fuel in Alaska from North Slope oil, and gasoline in Minnesota from the oil sands of Canada. They raise cattle …"

"… et fuel in Alaska from North Slope oil, and gasoline in Minnesota from the oil sands of Canada. They raise cattle in Montana and manufacture spandex in C …"

"… in Iowa, fertilizer in Trinidad, nylon in Holland, napkins in France and toilet paper in Wisconsin.According to the most recent Forbes magazine rankings …"

"… ghly on a par with BP and Royal Dutch Shell — in lobbying expenses among oil and gas companies, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.These t …"

"… start from a short circuit in an electric cable, a spark that ignites the oil in a pump, or an explosion in a transformer. Even a small fire could trigg …"

"… vast amount of cables and circuitry snaking through the plant. A typical boiling-water reactor has about 360 miles of cables ferrying electricity o …"

"… the complex issue for political advantage. Republicans say repealing oil industry tax breaks will drive up costs at the pump. However, nonpartisan …"

"… enate Democratic leaders asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate oil refiners for limiting supply "to keep prices artificially high." But the F …"

"… ix years for somebody buying a new car in 2016.Sen. Rand Paul claimed that oil companies earn only 7 cents on a gallon of gasoline. Not true. That figure …"

"… true. That figure does not include profit from producing and selling crude oil, so it grossly underestimates the amount companies earn on high gasoline p …"

"… �Grants and loans are competitively awarded on the basis of merit,” said Reid Cherlin, a White House spokesman.The Energy Department said it sees no conflict in …"

"… � to protect Americans from air pollution and would increase dependence on oil and other fossil fuels. …"

"… taxpayers.Since 2000, there have been 19 such moments – settlements with oil and gas companies in which the government has been able to recapture more …"

"… on system is in such disarray and so reliant on voluntary information from oil and gas companies that investigators can’t even determine how much the e …"

"… .By law, energy companies must pay one-sixth to one-eighth of the value of oil and gas obtained on public lands and in federal waters off the nation’s …"

"… real-time data is critical because royalties are based in part on current oil and gas prices. Without information on industry revenue, the Interior Depa …"

"… o idea what that means." …"

"… al and the availability of safer substitutes.Worst-case scenarios filed by oil companies with the Environmental Protection Agency show that at least 16 m …"

"… d test the product in a pilot project for $5 million, a small sum for most oil companies.Chevron officials did not return calls seeking comment Thursday. …"

"… refiners, is owned by Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., (PDVSA), the national oil company in Hugo Chávez’s VenezuelaInvestigator had “conclusive” exp …"

"… are not required, between 1994 and 2004, or illegally operated them as “oil-water separators,” which must be topped by either fixed or floating roof …"

"… equipment on the tanks, one of which was found to hold a 10-foot layer of oil during a surprise state inspection. The inspection revealed that the two t …"

"… he inspection revealed that the two tanks contained 4.5 million gallons of oil.On the day it was convicted — June 27, 2007 — Citgo asserted in a pres …"

"… gument on the number of permits issued in 2009, when the recession-plagued oil industry asked for the fewest permits in five years.But 2004 was the last …"

"… drilling permits at the 2009 rate of around eight a month. In between, the oil industry went through four years of boom before busting with the rest of t …"

"… mputing – while telling the truth, neither told the whole story.Offshore oil and gas drilling permit applications boomed between 2005 and 2008, along w …"

"… gas drilling permit applications boomed between 2005 and 2008, along with oil and gas prices – and cratered nearly as fast in 2008-09.Through the 1990 …"

"… early in the 2004 session of Congress.Not surprisingly, the well-connected oil and gas industry—which has been among the leading contributors to the pr …"

"… e biggest bonanza should the legislation eventually become law.Since 1998, oil, gas and related services companies on the Fortune 1000 list gave $13.9 mi …"

"… ld up to six new nuclear power plants.But no group would get more than the oil and gas industry, which secured everything from the elimination of royalty …"

"… try, which secured everything from the elimination of royalty payments for oil wells on public lands to a legislative shield from an estimated $29 billio …"