Renewable Revolution

November 10, 2021

Union of Concerned Scientists

Congress must hold Big Oil accountable for decades of deception

Dear Anthony,

This year’s international climate negotiations are still under way and the message from my colleagues there on the ground has been clear: current plans to cut emissions are still falling short of the kind of investment science tells us we need to limit the worst effects of climate change.

Here in the United States, Congress is still working to pass our biggest investment in climate action ever—the Build Back Better Act. Even as we continue to push hard to pass this critical investment, it’s hard not to think about the obstacles that prevented us from acting earlier, at a time when we could have prevented the devastation we’ve seen in recent years.

The fossil fuel industry has spent decades—and billions of dollars—to prevent climate action from happening.


And while the industry has long been able to avoid accountability for its actions, the tide is beginning to turn. States and municipalities across the country are bringing lawsuits against fossil fuel corporations to make them pay their fair share of the costs of addressing climate change.

And just last month, top fossil fuel industry executives were called before Congress to answer for their decades of climate deception. We must continue to hold these corporations accountable and ensure they don’t continue to stand in the way of the further investments we need to close the gap between our current climate commitments  and what’s needed to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. —Katy

The more we know about Big Oil’s ongoing climate deception, the better we can hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their harms. That’s why it’s crucial that this hearing be just the first step. Congress must continue to investigate the industry’s history of climate disinformation and ongoing anti-climate campaigns. Tell your US representative to keep the heat on and investigate Big Oil’s climate disinformation.

November 10, 2021

Agelbert Rant to Congress:

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform's October hearing on fossil fuel industry disinformation should be just the first step in investigating what oil and gas companies, and their trade organizations, have done to block climate progress and endanger the public. Atomic Scientist Edward Teller warned them a long time ago that they had to stop their CO2 producing business model. On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming. Yet, instead of beginning the transition to clean renewable energy, they formed a Conspiracy to deliberately put in doubt the scientifically irrefutable FACT that increased CO2 would result in Catastrophic Climate Change.



That said, the Hydrocarbon Industry's 62 year old disinformation campaign is NOT their worst crime, though it is certainly a felony. Beyond their greatest crime (i.e. wanton human health damaging biosphere pollution for short term profit), their greater crime is Corrupting State and Federal Government officials into blocking climate progress involving, but not limited to, Conspiracy to Defraud the Public of the United States through coerced "Subsidies" under the color of "National Security" (see Orwell).


The result of this dastardly crime continues to be SECURITY for the Hydrocarbon "Industry" ("Mafia" is a more appropriate description of their buy em' or bop em' modus operandi) and INSECURITY for the United States. Oil shocks, as anyone who can add and subtract knows, increase security for Big Oil and National Insecurity for the United States.

     
These Big Oil Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Criminals, and their quislings in  government, must be prosecuted to the furthest extent of the law AND have their assets confiscated.

If you do not act to prevent Big Oil from continuing their Mens rea modus operandi CRIMES of BRIBING politicians with a portion of the money YOU CONTINUE to allow them to coerce out of we-the-people through Climate AND Democracy Destroying "Subsidies", these Social Darwinist, Profit over planet, biosphere polluters will NOT STOP their "Business model" dictated crimes! What is it going to take for you politicians to figure out that Big Oil "Business as Usual" is a death sentence for our environment AND our democracy? We need fossil fuels like a dog needs ticks!


The Hydrocarbon Hellspawn DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, Government corrupting, human health depleting CRIME. Since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! PROSECUTE them or they will continue laughing all the way to the bank with their Government Hand Out "Subsidies" while they gleefully destroy our biosphere.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them. Proverbs 28:4