Big Oil Launches Attack On Al Gore

[kpete]

Big Oil Launches Attack On Al Gore
Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) will unveil two 60-second TV ads focusing on what it calls “global warming alarmism and the call by some environmental groups and politicians to reduce fossil fuel and carbon dioxide emissions.” The ad, which will be aired in more than a dozen cities across the country, is being released just a week before the May 24th opening (in LA and NYC) of Al Gore’s new movie on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth.

Who is CEI? The the Washington Post explains:

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which widely publicizes its belief that the earth is not warming cataclysmically because of the burning of coal and oil, says Exxon Mobil Corp. is a “major donor” largely as a result of its effort to push that position.

CEI also gets funding from other oil companies through the American Petroleum Institute.

Exxon documents reveal the company gave $270,000 to CEI in 2004 alone. $180,000 of that was earmarked for “global climate change and global climate change outreach.” Exxon has contributed over $1.6 million to CEI since 1998.

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For the oil industry, Al Gore’s film exposing the truth is perceived as a threat, and they have no shortage of funds to try to distort it.

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/17/attack-on-gore/

[mccoyn]

1. This is good news for Al Gore

Considering the popularity of big oil these days.

[BlooInBloo]

4. Voters: Big Oil is against Al Gore - where does that put you?

[klebean]

2. as Rove would say, "nice try"

spread the word

[Dudley_DUright]

3. Keep it up, Big Oil

You will only enhance Gore's credentials as someone living in the reality based (non-greed based) world.

[maddiejoan]

5. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,

then they fight you, then you win.

-- Mohandas Gandhi

[Raster]

6. "...this message brought to you by the Amerikan Petroleum Party and their

wholly owned subsidiary, the rethuglican party, also known as the g.o.p. (Gas and Oil Parasites).

[Initech]

7. These scumfucks have no shame, do they?

Big oil: Where logic takes a holiday and science is no longer relevant.

[bdamomma]

8. cheney is sending out his dogs

on Gore, disgusting.

[madrchsod]

9. cities service is running radio ads in chicago

that can best described as "remember who owns cities service" one line was cities service provides cheap oil for the poor...

[WePurrsevere]

10. So big OIL says.to Americans "so who do you believe? Me or

your own lying eyes?" as they see higher gas prices, weird temps in the middle of January, less or no snow where there used to be plenty, more and Cat 5 hurricanes, maple syrup running much earlier in the year, etc, etc.

Anyone who still thinks big $$$ companies like Exxon, etc are looking out for the average Jane or Joe's best interests are not only fools but Gosh damn fools.

[Junkdrawer]

11. Big Oil is BushCo....BushCo is Big Oil...

Surprise...Surprise.

[Ganja Ninja]

12. Trying to dispute what's becoming more obvious every year.

Somebody tell these people you can't stop a rising tide with PR.
In the words of Bob Dylan:

Come gather round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin
Then you better start swimmin
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin.

[flpoljunkie]

13. Yet, Note reports Dems energy legislation ignores raising CAFE standards!

On the energy independence front, a slew of Senate Democrats — including the man from Searchlight, NV — will join John Podesta at 10:15 am ET in the Mansfield Room of the US Capitol for the unveiling legislation of the Clean EDGE Act, legislation aimed at reducing US dependence on foreign oil.

The five-point plan will include an "aggressive effort" to ensure that an increasing number of new vehicles sold in the US run on alternative fuels, "starting with 25 percent in 2010." Democrats will also propose that the federal fleet of vehicles reduce its petroleum consumption by 20 percent over the next five years and 40 percent by 2020. The legislative package is also expected to include rolling back subsidies and tax breaks for oil companies and making price gouging a federal crime.

"Noticeably absent from the package is any nod toward increasingly fuel-economy standards," reports the Wall Street Journal's Laura Meckler. "Democrats are split on this issue, with lawmakers from auto-producing states opposing stronger mileage targets."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238

Evidently, we will need a Democratic president with the guts to raise the CAFE standards, as Dems in Congress will apparently not step up to the plate, excerpt perhaps for federal vehicles, a drop in the bucket.

[durrrty libby]

14. People are po’d over gas prices,

No one will give 2 bits as to what oil congloms have to say.

This is great. Go President Gore!