<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffccff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1b06aac0-02f3-4c7d-9059-b8d71378f4c5/F9FF92C1-E0B3-4A53-86B3-FB569F54A649/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/19/news/economy/oil_money/index.htm" href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/19/news/economy/oil_money/index.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">money.cnn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/19/news/economy/oil_money/index.htm"><BR clear="all" /><DIV class="storytext"><DIV id="IEContainerR"><DIV class="IErow"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD align="center"><STYLE> .cc10 { font:normal 11px Arial; padding:3px;} .cc11 { font:normal 11px Arial; padding:3px;} .sm10 { font-size: 10px; } </STYLE> <DIV id="sidebarTBL"> <TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0" class="sidebarTBLtable"><TBODY><TR><TD class="sidebarTBLheadline">Top oil lobbyists</TD></TR><TR><TD class="sidebarTBLsubhead">Company spending so far in 2008</TD></TR><TR><TD class="cnnTMcontent"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><TBODY><TR class="sidebarTBLheader"><TH align="center" class="cc11">Company</TH><TH align="center" class="cc11">Amount in millions</TH></TR><TR class="cnnIERowAltBG"><TD align="left" class="cc10">1. Exxon Mobil</TD><TD align="right" class="cc10">$8.1</TD></TR><TR><TD align="left" class="cc10">2. Chevron</TD><TD align="right" class="cc10">$6.1</TD></TR><TR class="cnnIERowAltBG"><TD align="left" class="cc10">3. BP</TD><TD align="right" class="cc10">$5.2</TD></TR><TR><TD align="left" class="cc10">4. ConocoPhillips</TD><TD align="right" class="cc10">$4.4</TD></TR><TR class="cnnIERowAltBG"><TD align="left" class="cc10">5. Koch</TD><TD align="right" class="cc10">$3.8</TD></TR><TR><TD align="left" class="cc10">6. Marathon</TD><TD align="right" class="cc10">$3.6</TD></TR><TR class="cnnIERowAltBG"><TD align="left" class="cc10">7. API</TD><TD align="right" class="cc10">$2.2</TD></TR><TR><TD align="left" class="cc10">8. Occidental</TD><TD align="right" class="cc10">$1.4</TD></TR><TR class="cnnIERowAltBG"><TD align="left" class="cc10">9. Williams</TD><TD align="right" class="cc10">$1.2</TD></TR><TR><TD align="left" class="cc10">10. Shell</TD><TD align="right" class="cc10">$1.2</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><DIV class="sidebarTBLnote">Source:Center for Res</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/19/news/economy/oil_money/index.htm"><P>If cash equals friendship, then John McCain and the oil industry are best friends.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/19/news/economy/oil_money/index.htm"><P>The Arizona Republican has taken $1.4 million from oil industry employees in the 2007-2008 election cycle, more than any other politician, according to CRP.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/19/news/economy/oil_money/index.htm"><P>That's over three times as much as Barack Obama, who ranks just below Hillary Clinton as the highest Democrat recipient.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/19/news/economy/oil_money/index.htm"><P>With gas prices near record levels and the public clamoring for something to be done, now is a dangerous time for any politician to be taking money from the oil industry.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F9FF92C1-E0B3-4A53-86B3-FB569F54A649/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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