US oil industry backs Bush campaign

  • 12/07/2000

While locked in a string of disputes with the Clinton Administration, the oil industry has pumped more than $1.5 million into George W. Bush's campaign. A range of issues - from drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge to new rules setting the price of oil taken from federal land to whether to pursue a controversial international agreement on climate control - oil executives believe Bush and the people he would appoint to key posts will be more receptive to their point of view than President Clinton's team.