[Denny]

Seeing this article, New York Times: "Blowing the whistle on big oil", it gives the impression that the oil industry and the government are in bed together.

Similarly, two years back, on 60 minutes, CBS interviewed a federal mines inspector in West Virginia who was let go for doing his job for the Dept. of Labor. He kept trying to enforce the law and set fines, after his superiors told him to rein things in. Early this year, the worst happened, two coal mining tragedies in short succession.

I find it hard to understand how a "mistake" can be let go year after year:

"In February, the Interior Department admitted that energy companies might escape more than $7 billion in royalty payments over the next five years because of errors in leases signed in the 1990s that officials are now scrambling to renegotiate. The errors were discovered in 2000, but were ignored for the next six years and have yet to be fixed."

Are these best described as "errors" or "intentionals"? Some enterprising journalists in years to come will be doing up exposes of the Bush Administration. The whole tone of these guys is reminscent of the the Harding administration of the early 1920's, another bunch who found new ways to separate the publicly owned oil from the public.

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'A')re these best described as "errors" or "intentionals"? Some enterprising journalists in years to come will be doing up exposes of the Bush Administration...

[lateStarter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'A')re these best described as "errors" or "intentionals"? Some enterprising journalists in years to come will be doing up exposes of the Bush Administration...

[NEOPO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'A')re these best described as "errors" or "intentionals"? Some enterprising journalists in years to come will be doing up exposes of the Bush Administration...