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Vote 4 Energy: Activists Launch Parody of API’s Deceptive 2012 Ad Campaign
2012-01-4
Today, Greenpeace USA launched a new campaign that mocks the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) “Vote 4 Energy” advertising initiative. API’s multi-million dollar campaign, which launched this week, is advocating for more drilling and hydraulic fracturing in United States. Watch the ad below: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW-NadlTFIA&feature=player_embedded] In a parody of API’s ad, “oil executives” say they vote for:… Read more »
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CAP sheds light on Big Oil’s books
2011-09-28
The Center for American Progress (CAP) posted an article today that takes a good look at the top five oil and gas companies’ financial shape. Here are a few highlights from what they discovered: BP and Shell, the two largest foreign oil companies that operate in the United States, had combined cash reserves of nearly… Read more »
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The market has spoken; it’s time to end Big Oil subsidies
2011-08-3
The release of oil and gas companies’ 2Q profits has shed light on some elected officials’ true positions on deficit relief. During the debt ceiling debate, Big Oil-backed politicians like Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) and Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA) consistently protected their corporate sponsors, instead of American families. When everyone was looking for ways to… Read more »
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Update: Flawed EIA Study Coverage
2011-08-1
The Checks and Balances Project helped uncover the story behind the flawed report released by the Energy Information Administration last week (see our post here).  Over the weekend and today, the story was picked up by a number of blogs and outlets covering the energy debate.  Today, the Checks and Balances Project, Greenpeace, and Oil… Read more »
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NYT Editorial: The Return of ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
2011-05-9
With the country again facing $4-a-gallon gasoline, the time would seem ripe for a grown-up conversation on energy. What we are getting instead is a mindless rerun of the drill-baby-drill operatics of the 2008 campaign, when gas was also at $4 a gallon. Then, as now, opportunistic politicians insisted that vastly expanded oil drilling would… Read more »
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Breaking from Think Progress
2011-05-3
Our friend Lee Fang at Think Progress posts on Rep. Rob Bishop’s denial of billions in oil subsidies. Re-posted in part from Think Progress: VIDEO: Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) Denies Existence Of Billions In Special Oil Subsidies Earlier this year, the GOP voted in lockstep to extend billions in tax breaks to oil companies. The… Read more »
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As Americans feel pain at pump, Big Oil wins big
2011-04-26
For immediate release April 26, 2011 Media Contact: Matt Garrington, Deputy Director matthew@checksandbalancesproject.org (303) 454-3376 Washington, DC – This week, Big Oil will announce record profits at a time when Americans are suffering at the gas pump. In the first quarter of 2011, ExxonMobil is expected to post a gain of 50 percent while a… Read more »
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