2011-09-08 "Chevron CEO says Obama should keep oil tax breaks" by Jim Snyder from "Bloomberg News"
[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/07/BU4U1L1B1K.DTL]
Chevron  Corp. Chief Executive Officer John Watson urged President Obama to cut  regulations and expand offshore oil drilling rather than use subsidies  to create jobs.
The administration should abandon efforts to repeal  about $4 billion a year in oil and gas tax breaks and reconsider an  Environmental Protection Agency rule on greenhouse-gas emissions to  control climate change, Watson said Wednesday at a conference in  Washington. The EPA regulation will raise energy costs and hinder  growth, he said at the meeting sponsored by the Hill newspaper and the  American Petroleum Institute industry group.
"I would be delighted to  invest more in the oil and gas industry," Watson said. The industry  responds to the "fiscal and regulatory environment we are given," he  said.
Obama is set to outline his proposals to help reduce  unemployment from 9.1 percent in an address to Congress tonight. Payroll  growth stalled last month, the Labor Department reported Friday.
 

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