#AdvocacyUSAmericanLegislativeExchangeCouncilALEC #TauntBigOil #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianChrisMcGreal "A powerful rightwing pressure group, the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), is pushing states to adopt a new law shielding all US businesses from 'political boycotts'. Although primarily aimed at protecting controversial industries such as fossil fuel companies, big agriculture and gun manufacturers, the proposed legislation is written to prevent boycotts by investors, banks and other companies of any US business." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/11/alec-anti-political-boycott-state-legislation

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Context #NewspaperUSBrdshtUSATodayYvonneWingettSanchez, #NewspaperUSBrdshtUSATodayRobODell "The industry-sponsored group has weathered controversy and flourished because it also offers conservative Republican elected officials a social network, access to campaign donors and a blueprint for how to accelerate their political careers." https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/04/03/alec-american-legislative-exchange-council-model-bills-republican-conservative-devos-gingrich/3162357002/ #PhenomnModelLegislation ^[Wikipedia]

#PoliticsGovernmentLimited ^[Wikipedia] #PoliticsCapitalismLaissezFaireFreeMarket #PoliticsFederalism

#OrgUSFedCentersForMedicareMedicaidServicesCMSMehmetOz ^[Wikipedia]

"Oil companies received $20.5B in subsidies last year Subsidies meant to keep gas prices down Big Oil gave $55M in PAC Money All Republicans Voted No to end the Price Gouging That's a 5800% Return on their investment to buy Republicans and continue the price gouging TrickleDownScam Economies only work for the Top 1% Shell Chevron bp EXXON Mobil Last year, Shell made $21.7 BILLION in profit, and bragged about its 'momentous year.' Last year, Chevron made $15.7 BILLION in profit, calling 2021 its 'most successful year ever.' Last year, BP made $14.8 BILLION in profit, and touted its 'highest profits in 8 years.' Last year, Exxon made $23.2 BILLION in profit, and boasted about its 'highest cash flow since 2012.' THESE HIGH GAS PRICES ARE CORPORATE PRICE GOUGING ON A MASSIVE SCALE." #TauntBigOil #MetaphorSpatialTrickleDownEconomics ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOP #BrandRoyalDutchShellPlc #BrandChevronCorporation #BrandBritishPetroleumBP #BrandExxonMobil

#CatchcryTrumpTrain #ConspiracyTheory_StolenElectionBigLie #InvectiveFuckJoeBidenFJB #CharacterisationWeaknessLaughingStock #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyHillaryClinton #CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech #LiteralFieldEconomicsInflationGasPrices

"This is a cat 994h. It burns 1800 gallons of fuel in a 12 hour shift. This machine is required to move 500,000 pounds of earth in order to get the minerals needed for one single telsa car battery. In whose world does this type of math and green new deal make sense?" ^{[fact-checked] [fact-checked]} #BrandCaterpillar ^[Wikipedia]. #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossilDiesel #PolicyGreenNewDealGND #BrandTesla #TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFinancial

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Context "Have you seen the one about the big trucks that burn 1800 gallons of diesel to make just 1 electric car? Yeah - that one's a lie. ... that post up there has already been debunked by an entire cottage industry of fact-checkers who will point out that the diesel calculations for the big mining trucks is wrong, the amount of dirt moved is wrong, and speak to the fact that those minerals, once pulled from the ground to be used in batteries, can be indefinitely recycled, meaning that initial carbon expense is only paid once, whereas a fossil fuel has a carbon cost to get from the ground, a carbon cost to refine, a carbon cost to transport, and a carbon cost to burn ... and, of course, once it's burned, you can't reuse it. You have to go get more." https://electrifynews.com/featured/busting-the-lies-about-big-trucks/

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Addendum how reassuring knowing that we can simply continue as we were, burning #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil and relaxing in the knowledge that doing so is helping the planet... #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism #TauntBigOil ?

#OrgIntlUNFCCCNetZeroEmissions ^[Wikipedia]

#BrandKopjesKattenoppasDavidHouwen ^[LinkedIn]

#TauntBigOil #TheoryPerformativeActivismWokeWashing https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/09/big-oil-delay-tactics-new-climate-science-denial #BrandExxonMobil #BrandChevronCorporation #BrandBritishPetroleumBP #BrandRoyalDutchShellPlc #PhenomnEnergyFuelFossil #MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #PhenomnDiscoursesOfDelay / #PloyManufacturingDoubtClimateInactivism #PhenomnClimateChange #TheoryDragonsOfInactionDiscredenceDenial #IRLScholarRobertBrulle: "the "lion's share" of ad dollars were directed not toward denial, or even toward the industry's products, but toward pro-fossil fuel propaganda - campaigns that remind people over and over again about all the great things oil companies do, how dependent we are on fossil fuels, and how integral the industry is to society." rulle, R.J., Aronczyk, M. & Carmichael, J. Corporate promotion and climate change: an analysis of key variables affecting advertising spending by major oil corporations, 1986-2015. Climatic Change 159, 87-101 (2020). ^{[academic source]} #EDUUSCornellUniversityArXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.04217 #CauseFeminism #TheoryClimateEngineeringGeoengineering #TheoryDragonsOfInactionSystemJustification

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Supplementary #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianAjitNiranjan "Europe should ban space mirrors, cloud whitening and other untested tools being touted to reflect the sun's rays, the European Commission's scientific advisers have said, but said the door should be left open for research into their development. The scientists said the risks and benefits of solar radiation modification (SRM) - also known as solar geoengineering - were 'highly uncertain'. They called for an EU-wide moratorium on using it as a way to offset global heating.... Critics argue that geoengineering does not address the root problem of heat-trapping pollutants that smother the Earth - making them at best a temporary fix while they are in use - and say they could also wreak havoc on the weather. 'Even if some of these proposals could address the symptoms of climate change, they do not address the cause,' said Barbara Prainsack, chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies. 'Presenting them as solutions could damage the efforts that are already under way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change.'" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/09/eu-should-ban-space-mirrors-and-other-solar-geoengineering-warn-scientists

#BrandZionOilAndGasIncPhilipMandelker ^[Government]

#ToponymEastMiddleIsrael #ToponymEastMiddleSyriaGolanHeights #2013_ #WebsiteBusinessInsiderMichaelKelley https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-grants-golan-heights-oil-license-2013-2 And #NewspaperUKBrdshtFinancialTimesFTJohnReed https://www.ft.com/content/471a183a-7c28-11e2-bf52-00144feabdc0

response to: #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheHillMyraAdams https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/570348-as-biden-falters-a-two-man-race-for-the-2024-gop-nomination-begins-to-take #OrgUSRedesignYourThinkingShannonBohnMcCallister

^[Government] #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRickPerry #BrandExxonMobil #TauntBigOil #BrandQatarPetroleumSaadAlKaabi

#OrgAFTaliban #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden #ToponymAfghanistan #2001_September11Attacks911 #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMarylandFrederickCountyCampDavid

#ToponymEastMiddleSyria #ToponymEastMiddleIsrael #BrandGenieEnergy #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPDickCheney #IRLBusinesspersonJacobRothschild #BrandNewsCorpRupertMurdoch #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJamesWoolseyJr #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyBillRichardson #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyLawrenceSummers #IRLBusinesspersonMichaelSteinhardt

#OrgUSRedesignYourThinkingShannonBohnMcCallister  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhs4zz7jrFc #TauntBigOil #PoliticsLibertarianism

#IRLUltracrepidarianKayleighMcEnany #OrgClassifPPUSDixiecrat #TauntBigOil #BrandKochIndustries

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