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Higher grain prices on the commodities exchange doesn't mean farmers are doing better, if they don't have enough grain to sell.
June 3rd, 2010
In a speech last week on the disaster unfolding in the Gulf, President Obama told the nation that for decades, there existed a “scandalously close relationship between oil companies and the agency that regulates them,” and that he took responsibility for a culture that had “not fully changed” [1] under his administration.
On that subject—the culture of coziness between the Minerals Management Service and industry—a non-profit Wyoming news service WyoFile [2] published a report today that details some of the ties between MMS internal culture, the state of Wyoming, and the state’s native son, Dick Cheney. From WyoFile [3]:
The elite among Wyoming’s legal and engineering professions, including several governors (past and present), have worked for energy industry clients. As a result, presidential administrations seeking an appointee (an appointee lobbyist) sympathetic to the energy industry can find a plethora of candidates in Wyoming....
