U.S. oil and gas producers started a public-relations campaign to protect industry tax breaks as Obama administration and congressional negotiators explore revenue to offset spending cuts that will  take effect next month.

As quoted in market news:

Discriminatory tax treatment of the oil and gas industry is a bad idea. They can keep us from doing what we do to help the economy; jobs, energy production and over the long term, even the revenues our industry provides to the government.

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