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 Follow the Money: New Group Runs Ads Promoting DrillingPosted on Sep 22, 2008By Will Evans, Center for Investigative Reporting The Secret Money blog is a joint project of the Center for Investigative Reporting and National Public Radio. Click here to listen to the Colorado ad. A new advocacy organization with strong ties to the oil industry is funding pro-drilling radio ads, including one criticizing the energy votes of Colorado Democratic Senate candidate Mark Udall. The recently formed American Energy Alliance is run by Thomas Pyle, a former aide to Republican Tom DeLay who recently lobbied for the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association and Koch Industries. The group supports free-market energy policies, including increased offshore oil drilling. Its ad says, “Gas prices are hurting Colorado families. But Congressman Mark Udall has voted 34 times against additional energy exploration and production.” The ad cost nearly $200,000 according to the group’s government filing. The Alliance also has a new radio ad praising Mississippi’s Republican senators, and previously ran ads against Udall and his cousin, Democratic New Mexico Senate candidate Tom Udall. American Energy Alliance is an offshoot of the Institute for Energy Research, also run by Pyle, who served as a policy analyst for DeLay when he was House majority whip. A 501(c)(3) organization, the Institute received $95,000 from ExxonMobil in 2007 and $65,000 the year before. ExxonMobil is no longer a funder, according to the organization. The Institute is also running radio ads promoting drilling. The Institute has also received money from the Brown Foundation, which was started by the founders of the construction and energy company Brown & Root; the Searle Freedom Trust, funded by the late conservative philanthropist Daniel Searle; and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, which is run by executives of Koch Industries, an oil industry giant. Wayne Gable, who lobbied for Koch Industries along with Pyle, is on the board of both the Institute and the Alliance. Koch is also behind the conservative group Americans for Prosperity, which has run pro-drilling ads in Senate races. Several staff members of the Insitute, including Pyle and American Energy Alliance board member Lisa Wallace, previously worked for former Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA), who ran the House Committee on Resources and was an arch enemy of environmentalists.
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By Purple Girl, September 23, 2008 at 3:04 pm #
Revoke their Leases, Repo their Assets and run their asses out of OUR FREE MARKET!
Report thisMake ALL energy sources nationally owned Treasures, Use what We need an dcompete with these fuckers on the World Market with the excess. How much of th eWorlds Eenrgy does Ameircans use, thus BUY? If we no longer pay the Drug Dealers, cause we’re ‘Growing our OWN’ that takes a Huge bite out of their Profit shares, Power and influence, Along with getting their hands out of Our Pockets!
Same for Food- End Corp Owned Big Agri Business. Return the Farms and the Free market model to the Ones who chose to live the lifestyle and burdens of Agriculture.Between Big Ag Business (9-5) here and that which comes in from China, I ‘m not sure which is Killing US faster!Ag Corps have not only increased th enumber of food borne illness affecting US, but have drastically increased the Geographical areas Affected. Corps have proven they are unable to manage Proper and humane Animal Husbandry practices. And have done nothing to lower the cost of Food. or even truely feed more people- We are still seeing Famine around the World, and even in our own backyard! give a man a fish and He’ll eat for a day, Teach him to fish and he will eat for a life time!
And McCain wants to do this Crap to Our Healthcare, Social Security, Medicare.. Jack it up in our National Defense, Emergency response, schools, Prisons…Screw Him!
By Big B, September 22, 2008 at 9:01 pm #
The funny part about this is that about a third of our nation is truly dim. They believe that the lord shall provide and more oil will magically appear beneath the soil. They believe in clean coal, a myth bigger than the loch ness monster. They believe that global warming, if it is happening, is a good thing sent by God almighty. Beach front property for everybody!
Report thisTen dollars a gallon for gas! One thousand a month for national gas or heating oil! (don’t kid yourselves, it’s on the way)
Good thing, nobody will be able to afford a home by then. And how expensive could it be to heat a tent or an old refridgerator box?