screens of the pumps so that you can see someone else get screwed at

the same time you are!

400 million dollar severance package, and Occidental

Petrol paid the same to its CEO for his salary for last year. Now I am sure they botyh really deserved it, aren't you. Exxon paid it's current CEO 26 million,

for this years salary. It was a Ind. Sen. on one of the

CSPAN channels. Pretty good for Occidental, when nobody has ever even heard of them.

Here's an article written in 2000 from The Nation about Occidental's ties to Al Gore and the Clintons.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000522/silverstein 

"But government backing for Occidental's Colombia proposal runs far deeper than the Gore family's stock portfolio. The Nation has learned, from a government source and the internal memos of an Occidental lobbyist, that the Clinton Administration has been quietly helping the company--a generous donor to the Democrats in recent years--to win support in Colombia for its drilling plans. While Gore has strong ties to Occidental, the Administration's point man on the issue is Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, who last year traveled to Cartagena and met with government officials on the company's behalf. Richardson has also hired a former Occidental lobbyist to work in a key international-policy position at the Energy Department."

John