News from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission

Jim Palmer, Director of Information

June 2, 2000

(OKLAHOMA CITY) Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Denise Bode will keynote the Monday, June 5 luncheon at the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association (OIPA) at Shangri La Resort near Grove. Bode will talk about "America At Risk," the need for a national energy policy.

On May 3, Commissioner Bode, former president of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), was invited to lecture at the Heritage Foundation, the nation’s top conservative think tank, in Washington D.C. There, she took center stage with former Secretary of Energy Donald Hodel to talk about the important but overlooked connection between energy policy and national security.

It was March 28 when Bode was asked to testify in the nation’s capitol before the joint U.S. Senate committee on Foreign Relations and Energy and Natural Resources. She was asked to address the issue of America’s reliance on foreign oil and how it poses a threat to national security. The Commissioner warned the Senate committee of the need for a national energy policy to bolster America’s independent oil production and reduce its dependence on foreign crude.

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