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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (14276)	6/5/2004 8:56:13 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

A look at some of the people who wrote the "horseshit" called, Strategic Energy Policy Challenges for the 21st Century. KENNETH LAY is Chairman and CEO of Enron Corporation. Lay also was chief executive officer of Enron from 1985 until February 2001. Currently, Lay serves on the board of directors of Compaq Computer Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, i2 Technologies, Inc., and Trust Company of the West. He is a Vice-Chairman of The Business Council and a member of the Board of Trustees of Howard University, Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Inc., Resources for the Future, the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, the American Enterprise Institute, and the First United Methodist Church in Houston. Lay is also a member of The Trilateral Commission STEVEN L. MILLER is Chairman of the board of directors, President, and CEO of Shell Oil Company. DAVID O'REILLY has been named Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer for ChevronTexaco. Since January 2000, he has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Chevron Corp. Earlier, O'Reilly was one of the company's two Vice Chairmen, responsible for Chevron's worldwide exploration and production and corporate human relations. MATTHEW SIMMONS is President of Simmons & Company International, a specialized energy investment bank. He is a Member of the National Petroleum Council and Bush-Cheney Energy Transition Advisory Committee, and past Chairman of the National Ocean Industries Association. ODEH ABURDENE is managing partner of Capital Trust S.A. He was a manager in the International division of the American Security Bank in Washington, D.C., and served as a Vice President with the First National Bank of Chicago. PATRICK CLAWSON is Director for Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and was previously a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Defense Department's National Defense University. FRANCES D. COOK heads the Ballard Group LLC, a business facilitation service in Washington. She is a three time former ambassador, including twice to energy-exporting countries. She twice served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, where her specialty was political-military affairs. Her regional focus is the Arabian Gulf and Africa. CHARLES B. CURTIS is Senior Adviser to the United Nations Foundation and the President of NTI, a newly formed foundation organized to reduce the contemporary threat from weapons of mass destruction. He has previously served as the Deputy Secretary and the Undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Chief Energy Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee. TOBY T. GATI is Senior International Adviser at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. She served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine, and the Eurasian States at the National Security Council in the White House in 1993, and then as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research until May 1997. LUIS GIUSTI currently serves as Non-Executive Director of "Shell" Transport and Trading, and as Senior Adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Formerly, he was Chairman and CEO of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. AMY MYERS JAFFE is the senior energy adviser at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University. Prior to joining the Baker Institute and President of AMJ energy consultants. Jaffe was the senior economist and Middle East Analyst for Petroleum Intelligence Weekly. Jaffe is the author of numerous articles on oil geopolitics, the Middle East, and the Caspian basin region. MELANIE A. KENDERDINE is the Vice President of the Gas Technology Institute. Previously she was Director of Policy at the Department of Energy, Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary of Energy for oil and gas, Deputy Assistant Secretary at Department of Energy, and Chief of Staff to Congressman Bill Richardson (D-N.M.). JOHN A. MANZONI is Regional President for British Petroleum in the eastern United States. ERIC D.K. MELBY is a Senior Fellow with the Forum for International Policy and a principal in the Scowcroft Group. He handled economic and energy issues on the National Security Council staff from 1987–93 and was Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency from 1981–85. Has also worked in the Department of State and Agency for International Development. EDWARD L. MORSE is currently Executive Advisor at Hess Energy Trading Co., LLC, a proprietary trading firm, with offices in London and New York. KENNETH RANDOLPH is General Counsel and Secretary of Dynegy, Inc, responsible for all of Dynegy’s legal and regulatory activities. ADAM SIEMINSKI is the Director and Global Energy Strategist at Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown. From 1988–97, Sieminski was a Senior Equity Analyst for NatWest Securities, covering the major U.S.-based international oil companies. He is a member and past President of both the National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts and the Washington chapter of the International Association for Energy Economics, as well as Chairman of the Independent Petroleum Association's oil and gas supply/demand committee. ENZO VISCUSI is Group Senior Vice President and Representative for the Americas of Eni, the Italian-based integrated energy company, where he also serves as Chairman of Agip Petroleum Co. Inc. He is primarily involved in promoting international ventures. CHUCK WATSON is the Chairman and chief executive officer of Houston Dynegy Inc., a leading provider of energy and communications solutions. He established NGC Corp, Dynegy's predecessor, in 1985 and served as president until becoming chairman and chief executive officer in 1989. Watson currently serves on the National Petroleum Council and is a founding member of the Natural Gas Council. He is a board member of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America and the Edison Electric Institute.

To: Selectric II who wrote (14276)	6/5/2004 9:23:40 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

From the "task force" "Remove bottlenecks and other obstacles to energy supply, both domestically and internationally the Task Force recommends that the government *consider all* possible means** of de-bottlenecking supplies and removing obstacles to delivery of supplies, both domestically and internationally. Options need to be considered that are unilateral as well as those that are bilateral, regional, and international or multinational by nature. In addition, the government needs to establish permanent machinery for integrating energy policy with economic, environmental, and foreign policy on a sustained basis." "All possible means" is another way of saying "By any means necessary"...a typical term for tacitly suggesting war. Prior to the invasion of Iraq, the right wingnuts threw that phrase around alot when saying UN Res 1441 meant invading Iraq was required....even if done unilaterally From the "task force" "A trend toward anti-Americanism could affect regional leaders’ ability to cooperate with the United States in the energy area. The resulting tight markets have increased U.S. and global vulnerability to disruption and provided adversaries undue potential influence over the price of oil. Iraq has become a key "swing" producer, posing a difficult situation for the U.S. government." Wow...look at all that oil in Iraq... By the way...did we mention "all possible means"? From the "task force" Government attention to energy issues has tended to fade as prices fall. That complacency could be justified so long as surplus capacities existed. But in a world of energy capacity constraint, complacency could shackle the U.S. economy for years to come. If it does not respond strategically to the current energy circumstances, the United States risks perpetuating the unacceptable leverage of adversaries and leaving its economy vulnerable to volatile energy prices." We don't want to frighten anyone but... By the way, did we mention Iraq? From the "task force" U.S. unilateral sanctions as well as multilateral sanctions against oil-producing countries have discouraged oil resource investment in a number of key oil provinces, including Iraq, Iran, and Libya. U.S. sanctions policy has constrained capacity expansion to some extent in Iran and Libya, although the unilateral aspect of the U.S. action limited its impact. In the case of Iraq, the U.N. sanctions imposed as a result of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait have had a severe effect on potential Iraqi production. "Sanctions’ role in constraining investment in several key OPEC countries has aggravated the global problem of spare production capacity, which is now less diversified among a number of large producers than was the case twenty years ago. The consequent lack of competition has contributed to high prices. Most of today’s spare productive capacity is located in Saudi Arabia. And Saudi Arabia’s high, and growing, level of production and the lack of significant spare unutilized capacity outside the kingdom have spotlighted that country’s critical role in determining the state of current and future oil markets, in turn creating unique political pressures. Iran and Iraq accuse Saudi Arabia of seeking higher production rates to accommodate the economic interests of the United States, Japan, and Europe at the expense of the needs of local populations, creating internal pressures in the Arabian Gulf region against a moderate price stance. Bitter perceptions in the Arab world that the United States has not been evenhanded in brokering peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have exacerbated these pressures on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and given political leverage to Iraq’s Saddam Hussein to lobby for support among the Arab world’s populations." So this sanctions thing on Iraq is not working out for us oily guys. Not that we want to go around pointing fingers and naming names but...we pretty much understand the political problem with lifting sanctions because that saddam guy is such a pain in the ass. We'll let you think that over a bit because we know how much you really don't like saddam. If saddam was gone those sanctions wouldn't be in the way of us oily guys and you would be happy if saddam was gone...right? You know we're willing to work with you on this. We kinda like you PNAC guys...all that global hegemony talk could become more than just shiny words and sparkly ideas.