Stay Connected  A new political approach  The start of a new
year is a good time to consider new approaches to the politics
of energy. As the year just ended showed, old approaches don't
work. They don't work because, especially in the US, people
don't like the oil and gas industry very much. In most US
regions, in fact, they don't like it at all.As a business issue,
this matters less than sales of oil and gas. But chronic
unpopularity matters greatly in politics. There, unpopularity
hurts. And there, the industry too frequently deserves what it
gets.Antique viewThe industry does little about its
unpopularity. For years, to the extent anyone fretted about this
ailment the antidote was always to educate the public....  Why
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