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orng302 said:OK, why?
Look no further than the US Senate race in Colorado. The O&G industry has donated hundreds of thousands to BOTH candidates. The oil industry are also are one of, if not *the* biggest revenue stream for the company that owns the Denver Post, The Boulder Camera, and about half of the other "newspapers" in the state.
Add together the revenue to the state's newspapers, television and radio outlets, and #1 is oil and gas, #2 is political campaigns. We are inundated with feel good ads from the O&G industry trying to deflect opposition to drilling in residential areas.
To point out that the war in Iraq is primarily to benefit Haliburton, BP, Exxon, and China and Russia's national oil companies would cut the news media's revenue stream, so they don't do it. The politicians won't utter a word because it would cut their campaign contributions.