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WASHINGTON, November 17, 2011 – American Petroleum Institute Senior Tax Advisor Brian Johnson called on Congress and the Super Committee to not target the more than 9 million U.S. jobs supported by the oil and natural gas industry.

WASHINGTON, November 8, 2011—API President and CEO Jack Gerard today announced a new advertising campaign to encourage Michigan lawmakers on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to continue to focus on job creation and revenues to the government through economic growth rather than punitive tax increases. The industry currently supports more than 160,000 jobs in Michigan.

WASHINGTON, November 8, 2011 - API President and CEO Jack Gerard today announced a new advertising campaign to encourage lawmakers on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to continue to focus on job creation and revenues to the government through economic growth rather than punitive tax increases.

WASHINGTON, November 8, 2011 - API President and CEO Jack Gerard today announced a new advertising campaign to encourage lawmakers on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to continue to focus on job creation and revenues to the government through economic growth rather than punitive tax increases. The industry currently supports more than 275,000 jobs in Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON, November 7, 2011 - API President and CEO Jack Gerard today announced a new advertising campaign to encourage lawmakers on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to continue to focus on job creation and revenues to the government through economic growth rather than punitive tax increases.

WASHINGTON, October 26, 2011 – API Vice President for Regulatory and Economic Policy Kyle Isakower briefed reporters today about an API-commissioned study by Sonecon that showed middle class Americans are principal owners of America's oil and natural gas companies:

WASHINGTON, September 19, 2011 – API President and CEO Jack Gerard said President Obama's call for higher taxes on the U.S. oil and natural gas industry would undercut efforts to create jobs:

WASHINGTON, September 15, 2011 - Erik Milito, director of the American Petroleum Institute's upstream group, said today that the latest report by the National Petroleum Council (NPC) adds significant weight to API's belief in the enormous potential for oil and natural gas in North America.

WASHINGTON, September 15, 2011 – API Executive Vice President Marty Durbin told reporters today that more pro-development oil and natural gas policies could provide a major boost to the nation's economy and create more than one million jobs.He said the President's proposal to increase taxes on the industry in the administration's jobs plan would have the opposite result and ultimately result in lost jobs and revenue.Durbin said API would be providing its comparison of the two approaches to the budget super committee in Congress as well as to other policymakers and the public:

WASHINGTON, September 12, 2011 – API's President and CEO Jack Gerard said President Obama's jobs plan announced today ignores the vast potential of the oil and natural gas industry to create jobs: