From our friends at High Country News, here’s an interesting tidbit that runs up against the whole “Drill, baby! Drill” mantra of the McPalin ticket:
Oil companies have bought influence in Washington and used that influence to make life easier for themselves and harder for their competitors. This may be a controversial statement, but it’s not an unfounded one, given the amount of money the oil industry pours into politics and the regularity with which it gets its way in policy debates. It certainly has more basis in reality than the claims of your average political attack ad.
