Our weekly update to unravel the industry and political spin around the energy debate
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY CREATES JOBS … IN CHINA
As part of their “Running on Empty” tour which wrapped-up this week, Americans for Prosperity tried to gin up attendance by handing out $20 gas cards to Diamond Shamrock and toy gas station pumps. It turns out that the . The gaffe shows AFP’s refusal to focus on issues that would actually help working Americans like ending to the oil and gas industry. They instead shill for Big Oil and weakening of protections for our water, air and public lands.
BINGO! WE WIN NOTHING – OIL SHALE STILL FAILED IDEA
During a House Natural Resources field hearing led by Reps. Lamborn and Tipton, Checks and Balances Project developed as a way to track the century-old rhetoric used by industry and their allies to promote oil shale as a energy option. While we managed to fill up our Bingo sheet, we hardly won anything – the hearing resulted in the same failed ideas on energy policy and a lack of leadership for real solutions to our growing energy problems.
A STRONG FINISH
will embark upon its last week of protests, ending Labor Day Weekend. As of today, over 500 people have been arrested in front of the White House as they urge President Obama to take a stance against Big Oil and dirty energy solutions that would endanger hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands and American families who live around the proposed pipeline. DeSmogBlog and TckTckTck created a Keystone pipeline infographic, which demonstrates the environmental risk of the pipeline.
DID YOU KNOW?
COLORADANS TO BIG OIL: YOU’RE TO BLAME
The Checks and Balances Project Chris Keating to conduct research that shows that 79 percent of Coloradans favor a crackdown on oil price speculation and market manipulation to reduce gas prices. Coloradans strongly favor ending taxpayer subsidies for oil companies. Seventy-two percent of Coloradans say ending oil company subsidies and transferring them to companies that are developing wind and solar power would be an effective strategy for the nation.
COMING UP THIS WEEK
OIL FOR EXPORT, NOT FOR U.S. ENERGY SECURITY
In pushing for the approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, Big Oil and its political patrons argue that the pipeline is necessary for American energy security and its construction will help wean America of dependence on foreign oil. However, at the new realities of the global oil market and at the companies who will profit from the pipeline reveals a completely different story: Keystone XL will not lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil, but transport Canadian oil to American refineries for export to overseas markets.
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