NEWS ADVISORY

ATTN: NEWS DIRECTORS AND ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

TULSA SPEAKING SCHEDULE FOR COMMISSIONER DENISE BODE

Wednesday, July 19, 2000

7:30 a.m. at the Adams Mark Hotel in downtown Tulsa

Commissioner Bode will be the keynote breakfast speaker for this year’s Oklahoma Transportation Summit. She will address the Corporation Commission’s role in transportation, the impact of recent legislation, oil production, the price of gasoline and taxes on gasoline and oil.

12:45 p.m. Bode will address the Tulsa Downtown Rotary Club at the First United Methodist Church, 1115 S. Boulder, Tulsa.

The Commissioner will speak to Rotary on the impact of OPEC, the struggles of Oklahoma’s oil and gas industries, the need for a national energy policy and streamlining the regulation of telecommunications, electricity and natural gas industries in the state

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