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Oil & Gas: Long-Term Contribution Trends

Oil & Gas: Top Contributors
Election cycle: 2000

Total contributed: $32,727,075
Contributions from individuals: $10,440,655
Contributions from PACs: $6,706,968
Soft money contributions: $15,579,452


Rank

Organization

Amount

Dems

Repubs

1

Enron Corp

$2,422,848

28%

72%

2

Exxon Mobil Corp

$1,372,280

10%

89%

3

BP Amoco Corp

$1,336,924

30%

70%

4

Koch Industries

$1,093,956

10%

90%

5

Chevron Corp

$1,083,827

28%

72%

6

El Paso Energy

$837,380

6%

94%

7

Usx Corp

$793,817

18%

82%

8

Coastal Corp

$684,615

31%

69%

9

American Gas Assn

$626,725

45%

55%

10

Occidental Petroleum

$553,876

40%

60%

11

Texaco

$497,207

25%

75%

12

Catamount Petroleum

$465,600

0%

100%

13

Anadarko Petroleum

$448,529

2%

98%

14

Phillips Petroleum

$437,444

7%

92%

15

Davis Companies

$430,500

99%

1%

16

Halliburton Co

$425,188

2%

98%

17

Ashland Inc

$400,025

9%

90%

18

Sunoco Inc

$396,861

20%

80%

19

Dynegy Inc

$372,550

18%

82%

20

Kerr-McGee Corp

$368,800

8%

92%




-- Cherri (jessam5@home.com), April 09, 2001

Answers

Interesting, but you should give the source. Bottom line to me is "so what?"

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), April 09, 2001.

WOW, look at those percentages for the Repugnants. It's no wonder they don't care about pollution or global warming.

-- (profit@before.people), April 09, 2001.

The Streisand Democrats, soft money

-- (Paracelsus@Pb.Au), April 09, 2001.

Yeah, it's terrible that actors and musicians have so much influence over politics. We might all die from too much music and movies!

-- be scared! (actors@are.evil!), April 09, 2001.

Be scared! You will die without heat in the winter. Frankly I can do with a little less Babs.

-- Maria (anon@ymous.com), April 09, 2001.


Maria: Frankly I can do with a little less Babs.

We agree on something. This happened before once on a discussion regarding circumcision, but it's rare.

I've never been a fan of Barbra's music OR her movies. Like anyone else, however, she has a right to write the Congress, donate money, etc. Like one poster mentioned, I can't see how her opinions or money will come back to her in political favors. Might legislation be introduced demanding everyone to watch X number of Barbra movies, or listen to her music? I think not.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), April 09, 2001.


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