The Men Who Raised Gasoline Prices: CEOs Darren Woods, Michael Wirth and Bernard Looney. Causing Astonishing Profits for ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP. Biden to Meet With Them Next Week. Hey Joe: Tell 'em to STOP PRICE GOUGING!

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/politics/biden-oil-ceos/index.html

Headline: Biden administration invites oil CEOs to meeting next week on gas prices... (6/16/2022)

The Energy Department sent an invitation to oil industry executives Wednesday night to meet next week to discuss high gas prices, an official familiar with the matter tells CNN.

The official said the invitation went out to the same seven oil companies to which President Joe Biden wrote a letter on Tuesday: Marathon Petroleum, Valero Energy, ExxonMobil, Phillips 66, Chevron, BP and Shell. 

Headline: House approves bill to combat gasoline ‘price gouging’  - May 19th, 2022But Republicans Killed the Bill so they Could Continue to Get Bribes from Oil Companies... 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/house-approves-bill-to-combat-gasoline-price-gouging

A closely divided House approved legislation Thursday to crack down on alleged price gouging by oil companies and other energy producers as prices at the pump continue to soar.

A bill backed by House Democrats would give President Joe Biden authority to declare an energy emergency that would make it unlawful to increase gasoline and home energy fuel prices in an “excessive” or exploitative manner. The bill directs the Federal Trade Commission to punish companies that engage in price gouging.

“At a time when people across the country are feeling the pinch at the gas pump, Congress needs to be doing all it can to bring down costs for American families,″ said Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wash., who co-sponsored the bill.

She called it “infuriating” that spikes in gas prices were “happening at the same time that gas and oil companies are making record profits and taking advantage of international crises to make a profit. This must stop.″

The measure was approved, 217-207. Republicans unanimously opposed the bill, along with four Democrats.

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Why Do We, The Taxpayers, SUBSIDIZE Oil Companies at ALL? Is this an example of Obvious Corruption? YES! Find out if YOUR Representatives in Government are Taking Oil Money in their Campaign... IF SO, Throw then OUT! Here is a List of the Top Twenty Bribe Taking Politicians! Vote Against these SWAMP CREATURES! 18 of the 20 are Republicriminals...

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?ind=E01++

Top 20 Recipients
Rank Candidate Office Amount
1 Gardner, Cory (R-CO) Senate $233,471
2 McCarthy, Kevin (R-CA) House $231,875
3 Cornyn, John (R-TX) Senate $201,390
4 Scalise, Steve (R-LA) House $146,925
5 McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) Senate $125,480
6 Daines, Steven (R-MT) Senate $119,418
7 Cassidy, Bill (R-LA) Senate $108,075
8 O'Rourke, Beto (D) $92,236
9 Trump, Donald (R) $88,912
10 Crenshaw, Dan (R-TX) House $88,872
11 Inhofe, James M (R-OK) Senate $77,650
12 Collins, Susan M (R-ME) Senate $73,800
13 Brady, Kevin (R-TX) House $72,200
14 Sullivan, Dan (R-AK) Senate $70,600
15 Tillis, Thom (R-NC) Senate $70,434
16 Cuellar, Henry (D-TX) House $55,850
17 McSally, Martha (R-AZ) Senate $52,971
18 Taylor, Van (R-TX) House $52,742
19 Roy, Chip (R-TX) House $52,322
20 Toomey, Pat (R-PA) Senate $51,800

METHODOLOGY: The numbers on this page are based on contributions from PACs and individuals giving $200 or more.

All donations took place during the 2019-2020 election cycle and were released by the Federal Election Commission on Thursday, August 01, 2019.

Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics. For permission to reprint for commercial uses, such as textbooks, contact the Center: info@crp.org

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 I wonder if they had Tie Dyes in Ancient Greece. Deadheads talking about Plato and The Cave...

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Headline: US Subsidizes Fossil Fuels To The Tune Of $4.6, $27.4, Or $649 Billion Annually, Depending On Source... https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/20/us-subsidizes-fossil-fuels-to-the-tune-of-4-6-27-4-or-649-billion-annually-depending-on-source/

CAUGHT! on tape... Oil Company Lobbyist Bragging about How they Changed the LAW so that Protest is NO LONGER Freedom Of Speech if the Target of the Protest is Oil Companies Building the BLACK SNAKE!

Headline: Leaked Audio Shows Oil Lobbyist Bragging About Success in Criminalizing Pipeline Protests...
"We've seen a lot of success at the state level, particularly starting with Oklahoma in 2017," said Derrick Morgan of American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/20/leaked-audio-shows-oil-lobbyist-bragging-about-success-criminalizing-pipeline

#MoscowMitch Thinks about his Life of Evil

Thank You! Both Obamas Campaign to Defeat Evil Donald Trump. Ever Wonder What Ever Happened to George Bush the Son? Why Doesn't He Campaign FOR TRUMP? Could it be that He is Such an Embarrassment for the Republicrime Party that he has to Stay Hidden? YES! However, Evil Dick Cheney is Campaigning for Trump... Donald Rumsfeld is Silent... 

Headline: The Obamas’ First Big Anti-Trump Statement of 2020... The former first couple’s Netflix documentary offers a quiet response to Trump’s promises to reinvigorate the industrial heartland.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/20/obama-trump-2020-227627

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ExxonMobilShellBPHalliburtonDowDuPont is Just SUPPLYING WHAT CUSTOMERS WANT. It's the BUYING of Gasoline that's Destroying our Planet. It's the BUYING of Plastic... It's the RUNNING of the Air Conditioner...

It's the Farming Marijuana INDOORS using Grow Lights instead of OUTDOORS in the Free Sunshine... STOP THAT! All that Electricity has to come from somewhere and currently that means burning Natural Gas, Coal or Nukes. About Half Electricity is made using Solar, Hydro and Wind but... Half Isn't! If we just USE LESS there is LESS POLLUTION... Less drilling... Less Fracking... Less Plastic in the Ocean... Fewer Giant Flares burning "waste" gas at refineries and Oil Wells... There would be NO NEED to build a Pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico... #NODAPL...  

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The Entire Concept of "CITY" needs to be re-done. People drive vast distances to get to their Slave Jobs in Silicon Valley... There is an Alternative. Look at Chico, California. Small Town built around a University. People prefer to Ride Bicycles because Parking is a REAL Hassle... It's entirely possible to live a CARFREE life there... Some people keep a car for use in Emergencies, like Parents who might have to RUSH to the School to Pick up their Kids... But, the bottom line is Vastly Less Gasoline Purchased because even if you drive to work it's a maximum of ten miles.  

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Remember: Nobody Drives Any More, Too Much Traffic!

WHAT IF we stopped living in Cities and Moved out to small towns. All those office jobs could be done in abandoned shopping malls... I remember walking around downtown San Francisco and wondering "What do all these people DO in those Skyscrapers?" They suffer absurd Commutes from Tracy or Sacramento to go sit in a cubical and type on a computer... WELL, Computers Can Be Located Anywhere... I remember that Eureka, California got the Contract to ANSWER THE PHONES and help people apply for Obamacare. All phone work ought to be done in rural USA. Customers HATE talking to people in India to get answers on the Phone. 

We need to END Trump's Crazy Trade War and Put Farmers Back to Work. The Trade War is Literally Killing Americans. Farmer Suicide is Much Higher than it was when Obama was President. 

Why are ExxonValdez and BP [British Petroleum] advertising on Television? Do they hope ads will cause increased sales? It all seems like Propaganda to convince the public that they are NOT EVIL.

What is this organization called Power Past Impossible? They say Climate Change is Wonderful!  Warm Sunny Days in Alaska All Year 'Round!

Those ExxonValdez ads just really creep me out... They constantly show Trees and Meadows and the Park... and Biology research into alternative slime based fuel... BioWillie!

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/IW6P/exxon-mobil-carbon-capture

American Petroleum Institute Launches Pro-Oil Ad Campaign During Super Bowl

https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/06/american-petroleum-institute-superbowl-ad-oil-power-past-impossible

What is fossil fuel divestment?

https://gofossilfree.org/divestment/what-is-fossil-fuel-divestment/

Divestment is the opposite of an investment – it simply means getting rid of stocks, bonds, or investment funds that are unethical or morally ambiguous.

When you invest your money, you might buy stocks, bonds, or other investments that generate income for you. Universities (and colleges in the US), religious organizations, retirement funds, and other institutions put billions in these same kinds of investments to generate income to help them run. Fossil fuel investments are a risk for both investors and the planet, so we’re calling on institutions to divest from these companies.

Divestment is also to end to fossil fuel sponsorship. Fossil fuels companies cultivate sponsorship relationships to help create a ‘social licence to operate’. This contributes to the veneer of legitimacy that enables them to keep expanding operations at a time of climate crisis and to stifle the demands for justice of those communities who live on the frontline of their destructive, polluting operations.

We are an international network of campaigns and campaigners working toward freeing communities from fossil fuels. While each campaign is independently run and may bring different emphases and asks depending on their local context, the majority of campaigns are asking institutions to:

• Immediately freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies;
• Divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within 5 years
• End their fossil fuels sponsorship

Truly Creepy TV Advertisements... Power Past Impossible Pro Oil Propaganda... Trying to sell the idea that burning Fossil Fuels is Wonderful...

It has become obvious that Renewable Energy is our future but... all those people employed in the Fossil Fuel Industry are fighting for their lives to keep the USA purchasing increasing quantities of Oil and Gas... Their jobs depend on a steady flow of oil out of the ground into refineries and into our gas tanks... and all that plastic crap that is polluting the planet... Plastic does not "go away" ever... and we already see giant swirls of floating plastic in the oceans... The People that are employed by Exxon, Shell, BP, Halliburton and Koch have vast pools of money that they are now using to buy advertising talent to convince you and I that it is "cool" to buy gas... and plastic...

an alternative to buying corporate crap is to simply reduce the amount you travel in a car... In my youth it was fashionable to drive all over the USA following The Grateful Dead (an American Rock Band)... really... people (including me) would drive 8 hours or more to attend yet another concert... I'm not making this up... Well, now days traveling places is not really needed anymore... We can travel using the internet to see what's happening on the other side of the planet... It's all this driving around that is causing Climate Change.

Of Course, we all have to drive to work every day... Unless we live close enough to the office to ride the bus... Twice in my lifetime I was able to ride the bus to work. San Jose has great bus/light rail service and so does Eureka, California. One advantage to riding the bus is that you meet people... and become friends with them. In my case I met some women on the bus. I like women and was glad to have their friendship. We would sit in the back and chat for a half an hour every workday. VERY Pleasant...

Quit buying Plastic Crap. I'll say it again... Quit buying Plastic Crap. Just look for an alternative... One thing that is absurd is all the plastic bottles for drinking water... why not drink the water right out of the tap? The answer is that often tap water is poisonous... Well, what we need to do as a society is clean up the water that comes into our homes... really... Remember that showering in poisonous water is as bad for your health as drinking fracked water... and a coke at Taco Bell comes in a plastic cup... why not a waxed paper cup?

another alternative action  is to divest your stock market portfolio of oil and gas investments... Like we divested from tobacco companies... simply call your stockbroker and ask to switch ownership of stock from oil and gas to solar and wind... It's an investment strategy that will win in the long run.


https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/06/american-petroleum-institute-superbowl-ad-oil-power-past-impossible American Petroleum Institute Launches Pro-Oil Ad Campaign... In this latest case, the real question is why API decided to begin lobbying the public directly, rather than using its money and clout to influence politicians who actually create the laws and some of the regulations governing the oil and gas industry. The answer to that question is likely simple: The oil and gas industries are already maximizing the benefits they are receiving from elected leaders, and are now focusing on gaining public approval.

Fossil Fuel Divestment = getting rid of stocks and bonds that are unethical... We can Build a Fossil Fuel Free World by putting money in Solar and Wind Businesses.

https://gofossilfree.org/divestment/what-is-fossil-fuel-divestment/

Divestment is the opposite of an investment – it simply means getting rid of stocks, bonds, or investment funds that are unethical or morally ambiguous.

When you invest your money, you might buy stocks, bonds, or other investments that generate income for you. Universities (and colleges in the US), religious organizations, retirement funds, and other institutions put billions in these same kinds of investments to generate income to help them run. Fossil fuel investments are a risk for both investors and the planet, so we’re calling on institutions to divest from these companies.

Divestment is also to end to fossil fuel sponsorship. Fossil fuels companies cultivate sponsorship relationships to help create a ‘social licence to operate’. This contributes to the veneer of legitimacy that enables them to keep expanding operations at a time of climate crisis and to stifle the demands for justice of those communities who live on the frontline of their destructive, polluting operations.

The needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many... according to corporate rule... Profit for Stockholders instead of for The Common Good.

Corporations will do anything to stay alive... Bribery, eco-disaster, murder, propaganda... anything.
During the last years of ExxonMobile, BP and Shell expect desperate measures to protect the profits of the shareholders (The Few)... Ignoring Climate Change ( the many)...

One propaganda machine is https://powerpastimpossible.org/ a TV commercial generator stating that the oil companies are making our wonderful life. Yes, it's true that I love driving my car... and I love all the plastic goods made out of petroleum... However, I'm not thrilled by Hurricanes and Wildfires, Droughts and Floods... and they are caused by oil...

So, what can a person DO to prevent Climate Change?

1. Stop Driving Cars...  OR... Drive Cars Less... Is there a real need to do all this traveling? Air Pollution from automobile exhaust is the main cause of global warming. Jet Airplanes are really bad.
Solar Powered Electric Cars would help. Motorcycles would help. Especially little scooters...
Shorter Commutes to Work Everyday is Essential. Choose jobs that are close to home. Make that a priority like high pay or benefits... consider your commute and what a waste of time it is... Ride the Bus, Light rail or commute by train.

2. Use less electricity generated by Natural Gas and Coal. Unplug your transformers that power computers, routers, printers and modems when not in use. Those little black boxes get warm... that's wasted electricity. Simply plug in all those transformers into one power strip and FLICK THE SWITCH when you are not actually using the computer. Stop farming marijuana indoors using grow lights. Simply plant gardens outdoors in the sunshine.

Use the air conditioner less. Sweat... Learn to become accustomed to hot weather. It's not fun but... people lived like this for millions of years... too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter... wear a sweater... turn off lights when not in use... switch to LED lamps...

3. Have fewer children. Pollution caused by automobiles is worse when there are 7 BILLION people polluting in comparison to 1 Billion... What will the world be like with 10 BILLION people? 15 BILLION? How Many is Too Many? Use Birth Control... 30 BILLION PEOPLE? Mass Starvation? It will become impossible to grow enough food...

4. Simply Run Away... Move to a cool and rainy climate while that's still an option. The Oregon Coast will be a wonderful place to live for the foreseeable future. Northern California and Washington State Coastal Towns also. Let FUTURE generations solve this problem...