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Big Oil: 'Together, We Can' ignore global warming
American Petroleum Institute ad promotes climate catastrophe |
Brad Johnson |
26 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Originally posted at the Think Progress Wonk Room. The American Petroleum Institute, the trade organization for the oil and natural gas industry, has just begun running a feel-good commercial that argues 'America's future' lies in drilling out domestic reserves of oil and natural gas. Here's what the ad says: Oil and natural gas powered the past. But the future? Fact is, a growing world will require more. 45 percent more by 2030, along with greatly expanding alter ... |
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| Topics: advertising, Big Oil, energy, messaging, natural gas, oil, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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WaPo ad
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David Roberts |
11 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| An ad ran in the Washington Post a while back assuring everyone that the U.S. isn't running out of natural gas (PDF). Indeed, North America has 120 years worth! Scarcity? What scarcity? (Note, however, 50% of the alleged future nat gas is bound up in shale. Kinda dirty.) The ad is from the American Clean Skies Foundation, which appears to be for nat gas what ABEC is for coal. (Also mildly amusing: the ad quotes me.) |
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| Topics: energy, messaging, natural gas (all these topics) |
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