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To: Cisco who wrote (1065)	10/16/2000 8:20:23 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1719

Ya, right!

To: Cisco who wrote (1065)	10/16/2000 9:06:56 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 1719

Gore's messy relationship with the oil big shots KP Note: there is something for everyone here on this site...but it does talk about some of the issues.....)Note they mention 2 million bbs for the NE....out of the 30 million....probably most of which is going to Europe... and the "bold" emphasis is mine.... newhavenadvocate.com Big Al's Oil Farm By Edward Ericson, Jr. Plus: Oily and Oilier \| Gore, Hammer, Gadhafi \| Gore turns back on the U'wa When Republican Presidential nominee George W. Bush chose as his running mate oil executive and former secretary of defense Richard Cheney, Democrats and Greens had a field day. "Champagne corks must be popping in executive suites," said Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, an organization founded by Green Party Presidential nominee Ralph Nader. "Cheney favors big oil over American consumers," trumpeted the Gore 2000 campaign Web site. News reports spoke of Bush's former career as an oilman. And then the noise about oil blew over. That's because, even as Northeastern homeowners are bracing for another winter of high fuel oil prices, the presidential campaigns appear to be selectively avoiding a debate about oil, oil policy, and even the questionable ties the candidates have to major oil companies. Arguably it's because both sides have something to hide. While the Gore campaign has criticized George W. Bush's ties to big oil (see "Oily and Oilier"), Gore's own ties to Occidental Petroleum -- and his family's long and close relationship with its late chairman, Armand Hammer -- have remained mostly in the background. The relationship, which spans generations, is particularly troublesome for a Democratic candidate who has depicted himself as a friend of the environment and of the little man. And the Clinton/Gore Administration has not been shy about using oil policy to bolster Gore's campaign either. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson admitted last winter that his department had been "caught napping" by a sudden spike in world oil prices. After months of dithering in Congress, President Clinton ordered an unprecedented two million barrel heating oil reserve for the Northeast. In a meeting with Richardson on July 19, oil company executives complained that such an oil reserve will create uncertainty in the market, possibly leading to the higher prices it seeks to avert. After the meeting, Richardson underscored his agency's reluctance to administer such a reserve. "The government does not want to be in the heating oil business, but we must be ready to respond to a shortage or severe price spike," Richardson told an Associated Press reporter. Clinton's decree is, however, politically propitious for Gore. The oil reserve's original bid specifications called for the oil to be delivered and stored between Oct. 1, 2000 and September 30, 2001, but a July 20 amendment to the request for proposals stated that all the oil would have to be in place by the end of October. There is an irony, too, in that the oil that will be used to establish the heating oil reserve in the Northeast will indirectly come from the nation's Strategic Oil Reserve, a 570-million barrel cache of stored oil that was put in place in the 1970s to offset the fluctuations in oil prices. Only two years ago, Gore and Clinton sold the largest national oil field, an underpinning of that strategic reserve, to Occidental for less than half the value of the oil in the ground. The Bush campaign has picked up on these and other apparent contradictions in the Clinton/Gore energy policy, quietly alerting reporters to this central flaw in Al Gore's "clean-green" reputation. "It's fair to say that when it comes to Al Gore and Occidental, Al Gore has been very slick," says Mike Collins, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee. "He should come clean."