What do you think Cheneys secret meetings with oil executives in 2001 were all about?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501842.html

Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force

By Dana Milbank and Justin Blum
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, November 16, 2005; Page A01

A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress.

The document, obtained this week by The Washington Post, shows that officials from Exxon Mobil Corp., Conoco (before its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil Co. and BP America Inc. met in the White House complex with the Cheney aides who were developing a national energy policy, parts of which became law and parts of which are still being debated.

In a joint hearing last week of the Senate Energy and Commerce committees, the chief executives of Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and ConocoPhillips said their firms did not participate in the 2001 task force. The president of Shell Oil said his company did not participate "to my knowledge," and the chief of BP America Inc. said he did not know.

Chevron was not named in the White House document, but the Government Accountability Office has found that Chevron was one of several companies that "gave detailed energy policy recommendations" to the task force. In addition, Cheney had a separate meeting with John Browne, BP's chief executive, according to a person familiar with the task force's work; that meeting is not noted in the document.

The task force's activities attracted complaints from environmentalists, who said they were shut out of the task force discussions while corporate interests were present. The meetings were held in secret and the White House refused to release a list of participants. The task force was made up primarily of Cabinet-level officials. Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club unsuccessfully sued to obtain the records.

just a guess
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that would be my guess... game the market to make a fortune for those doing the gaming, all at the expense of those being gamed...

SOLD to the highest bidder!

along with land leases. Judicial watch has the Iraq maps with the reserve fields in numbered blocks. They also have a list of companies that were interested.

think the american people are PISSED, or anything, about high gas prices? think they'd be even more pissed when they're reminded of the SECRET meetings between big oil and Cheney....MAKE those meeting notes PUBLIC.

that would make quite the ad starter

remember the carpet of gold, carpet of bombs?

http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=5166

PARIS, Nov 15 (IPS) - Under the influence of U.S. oil companies, the government of George W. Bush initially blocked U.S. secret service investigations on terrorism, while it bargained with the Taliban the delivery of Osama bin Laden in exchange for political recognition and economic aid, two French intelligence analysts claim.

In the book ''Bin Laden, la verité interdite'' (''Bin Laden, the forbidden truth''), that appeared in Paris on Wednesday, the authors, Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, reveal that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's deputy director John O'Neill resigned in July in protest over the obstruction.

Brisard claim O'Neill told them that ''the main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were U.S. oil corporate interests and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it''.

The two claim the U.S. government's main objective in Afghanistan was to consolidate the position of the Taliban regime to obtain access to the oil and gas reserves in Central Asia.

lease price for the Unocal pipeline that the Taliban were demanding.

Drawing a map of the world for natural resource conquest.

people out of as much money as possible. So far their plan has worked. The question now is how much longer it will keep working after Bush leaves office.

Iran may take a little longer than originally planned.

take their gas. We need to have the details of the meeting to know for sure.

So Dick, how'd that plan work out for ya?

is what that was all about. The war in Iraq was a small part of it too.

The fuckers!!!!

Why aren't they being called to the carpet? This isn't a supply/demand situation and anyone who says otherwise is completely full of shit. These fuckers are CONTROLLING the market!!!

They should be shoved to the wall!!!!

Cheney should be prosecuted for treason because he's willing to act DIRECTLY AGAINST THE USA in order to profiteer for a handful of greedy muther-fucks!!! HE IS GUILTY OF TREASON!!!

EW!!!!:mad:

2. How much of them do we need.
3. How long will they last if we get them.
4. Prioritize the list according to quality and accessibility.
5. Who has existing contracts in volatile parts of the world that might be disrupted by US intervention.
6. How to compensate for those (potential) disruptions.

oh wait, silly me, it must've been about oil and getting around RICO statutes...

seriously, what else could it have been?

Just like they have done!

without them being able to find out or do anything about it?' 'Easy. Hold them hostage with high gas prices until they let us drill anywhere. We'll make billions!' :dem: