Some Cheney Background

Some clues to how we got oil prices tripled and record oil profits during Bush 2:

http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/30/10-things-you-didn%E2%80%99t-know-about-dick-cheney/

TX to Export Keystone Oil

"... the idea that Keystone XL will decrease America's dependence on foreign oil is demonstrably false."

"2. Valero, the top beneficiary of the Keystone XL pipeline, has recently explicitly detailed an export strategy to its investors. The nation's top refiner has locked in at least 20 percent of the pipeline's capacity, and, because its refinery in Port Arthur is within a Foreign Trade Zone, the company will accomplish its export strategy tax free."

from:
http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/policy_library/data/01614

Rick Perry Gets Paid

“We’re sending out a request today asking President Obama to put a moratorium on all regulations,” Rick Perry

Perry's been propositioned by polluter pariah:

"Despite his anti-government rhetoric, in Rick Perry’s Texas public sector employment grew twice as much as private sector employment."

http://thinkprogress.org/progress-report/