ApocaDocs: Oil lobby's financial pressure on Obama over Keystone XL pipeline revealed

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Posted Thu Jan 12 2012: from London Guardian:


	Oil lobby's financial pressure on Obama over Keystone XL pipeline revealed http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1326327990 New analysis of oil industry contributions to members of Congress has revealed the level of the oil lobby's financial firepower that Barack Obama can expect to face in the November elections if he refuses to approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Obama has until 21 February to make a decision on whether to approve the pipeline, under a compromise tax measure approved late last year. America's top oil lobbyist warned last week that the president would face "huge political consequences" if he did not sign off on the project to pump tar sands crude across the American heartland to refineries on the Texas coast.

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'Doc Michael says:

If he approves Keystone we'll have to call him Oilbama.