https://freerepublic.com/tag/inthelate1990s/ en-us Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:29:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1588693/posts WASHINGTON - How it happened or who's responsible is a mystery eight years after the fact. But what may have been a simple error — or perhaps something more ominous — has given a multimillion-dollar windfall to a group of oil and gas companies and could cost the government billions of dollars more in the years to come. The Interior Department disclosed Wednesday that a provision was mysteriously deleted from hundreds of federal drilling leases in the late 1990s that would have required producers to pay royalties, once prices reached a certain level, on oil or gas taken from deep... AP via Yahoo News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1588693/posts#comment Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:29:07 GMT