The oil lobby carbide to save its influence

In the last U.S. presidential election, the contributors to the industry of oil and gas and given 2,359,000 dollars candidate John McCain and Democratic candidate to 0,832,000 Barack Obama . Amounts that are low by donations garnered by the two candidates, $ 1.1 billion in total. Other economic sectors , especially banks and other financial institutions, have largely contributed most to finance the presidential campaign that the sector oil.

A former influence

The real influence of lobbies energy does not lie in their ability to finance the presidential campaign, but rather to influence the political decision-making.

For many years, major oil firms from Western states were owned by or under the supervision of their own as the supply of oil was a strategic state interest. Found in Russia, with Gazprom and China, with China Oil, controlled by relatives of the governments of these countries, the same logic. It thus refers to the judgment of Russian gas supplies to Ukraine for contractual reasons but also political. Several pipeline projects are now planned to bypass Ukraine and overcome its geographic centrality for deliveries to Europe. Since its discovery, the oil is at the center of geopolitical interests as stated Eric Laurent, in his book "The hidden face of the oil . " For its part, China is seeking to expand its sphere of political influence in Africa to secure a share of its oil supplies.

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When the oil companies were under the direct control of the state-shareholder relations between the government and these companies were particularly easy and straightforward. Now that this link is distended, oil companies are engaged in lobbying campaigns to maintain their influence and remember how precious is their role in the economic development of a pay s. In France, it is the French Union of Petroleum Industries , which is responsible for spreading the word.

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The Halliburton symbol

Thus, one can guess, the two wars in Iraq motivated by economic reasons related to energy supply. In order to have a stable political system in this country, the United States and its allies have committed their troops in this country under the guise of fighting against the hegemonic temptation of Iraq in Kuwait in 1991 and the fight against terrorism 2003. From here see the only brand of oil lobby there is a step that we do not cross it in the absence of tangible evidence of their sole responsibility. Nevertheless, strong links between the White House, driven by his hawks, and oil interests.

Thus, Halliburton conglomerate of companies related to the oil industry, changes its lobbying policy when George Bush Junior, and especially Vice-President Dick Cheney, former president of Halliburton, enter the White House from 2001. To believe that money becomes useless when the levers of power are directly available. Of many leaders of Halliburton executives make a trip to the Republican administration or conversely, evidence of links required between the two organizations. Sarah Palin , the Republican candidate for vice-president was also linked to groups of oil influences . It recommended in particular , like the Bush administration, openness to drilling in some areas of the Arctic.

A maneuver on the Kyoto Protocol

Nevertheless, the oil sector is subject to erratic variations that the gradual extinction of oil, or rather the gradual extinction of oil exploitation in terms of cheap, is not enough to explain. The oil market is subject to the law of supply and demand . Hence it depends on the state of global growth, sluggish today which explains the drop in oil prices in recent months, despite the willingness of the producer countries gathered in what the oil cartel OPEC reduce their production. The price level also depends on the level of reserves in each country and first in the United States. More between the price of oil on world markets and the price at the pump or tank, other fiscal mechanisms but also related to refining capacity are taken into account. And without speaking, petroleum products, some plastics which used daily by almost all the inhabitants of the planet.

If the suspicions of influence hanging over the oil lobby during the wars in Iraq is mainly on the development of international regulations on the emission of greenhouse gas emissions it is mostly felt.

At the time of the Kyoto negotiations 1, the global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the largest emitter in the world, the United States did not ratify the treaty. In fact, it almost becomes "obsolete." The Kyoto Protocol has established the market for rights to pollute freely transferable on the market for the most virtuous and redeemable by those companies that pollute more than their quota of emissions.

2 Kyoto negotiations to be held in Denmark in December 2009 will be an opportunity for the oil lobby to gauge the influence greatly against-square by interest groups in the world of insurance, worried about the consequences of global change on humans and their income statements based on natural disasters suggest raising the level of temperature and water on the planet.

Still, the oil lobby is not dead. API, which includes most of the interests of the oil and natural gas continues to remember how the black gold is essential to the planet. "Oil and natural gas take us down the street and around the world. They warm and cool our homes and businesses. They provide the ingredients for medicines, fertilizers, fabrics, plastics and other products That Make Life Safer, Easier and better, "said the leaders of the organization. And thereby attempt to slow the entry into application of regulatory measures adopted globally. To follow, including on the issue of development of non-fossil fuels.

Note that the lobbying of oil based entertainment industry. Canal Plus has released the first part of a long series on the Arrow Oil, an oil company, little regard for environmental contingencies, which here is the trailer.

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