VOL. XLIII

No. 34

21-August-2000

GENERAL

Democratic Party Platform Avoids Oil Price Issue, Calls For Cleaner Energy

Unlike the US Republican party platform, which denounced OPEC for raising the price of crude oil (MEES, 7 August), the Democratic party platform avoids the issue of oil prices, saying only that the American people should be given choices freeing them from "being held hostage to foreign oil." Since the start of the US presidential campaigning season earlier this summer, the...