DAYTON'S OIL STOCK SHOULD BE OF CONCERN TO KLOBUCHAR
Click on the picture above to view Dayton's ownership of Exxon Mobil stock.
If Amy Klobuchar was really concerned about Exxon Mobil she would tell Senator Mark Dayton, the Senator she is trying to replace, to sell his Exxon Mobile stock.
According to Senator Dayton's personal financial disclosure forms, Dayton owns thousands of dollars worth of Exxon Mobile and other oil company stock.
Click on the link above and download all of Dayton's disclosure forms.
Klobuchar is great with the rhetoric, but will she back it up?
"This month we learned that Exxon Mobil took in nearly $10 billion in profits in just the last three months –- more than $25 billion so far this year. That already matches their total profits for all of last year. At the same time, the Republican leadership in Congress has refused to help Minnesota families with their increased cost of home energy.
Why should the people of Minnesota be left out in the cold this winter when the oil industry is warming up for yet another round of record profits?" Source: Amy Klobuchar's website
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Klobuchar's energy proposal targets price-gouging
DFL U.S. Senate candidate Amy Klobuchar called Monday for a national energy strategy that would penalize oil companies for gasoline price-gouging and require investment in renewable energy.
Speaking at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Klobuchar said that "America's renewable energy revolution is as close as the nearest corn or soybean field in our Minnesota countryside." Klobuchar said her policy would require Minnesota's new 20 percent ethanol content for gasoline to become the national standard.
The federal government should require that renewable sources overall -- ethanol, wind power and solar power -- make up 20 percent of all electricity generated by 2020, she said.
Klobuchar also said the federal government should spend more on research and development for renewable energy and that oil companies should be required to divert some of their profits toward the same. Source: Star Tribune, November 15, 2005
2 Comments:
This doesn't even address the concern she raised of price gouging.
Dayton is invested at a small amount, but still invested in oil companies AND was one of the first to call for investigations of price gouging. Further research would have told you this.
Republicans and MDE specifically seem to be confused on how you can personally have something at stake like and investment, yet legislate for the people you represent, at times against your personal gain.
It's called ethics. Pass it on to Dick Cheney and George Bush.
Are you arguing that stockholders share responsibility for a company's actions? Are you arguing that, in the same vein, we as citizens of the U.S. and of Minnesota, bear responsibility for Pres. Bush and Gov. Pawlenty's actions?
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