Offshore Drilling is a Gimmick
MoveOn’s new ad cuts straight through the bull on the current energy debate:
Furthermore, today we learn that Exxon Mobil just reported not only their most profitable quarter, but the most profitable quarter of any corporation in the world, ever. The lie that oil companies somehow are hurting right now because of the price of oil is ridiculous.
The idea that lower prices at the gas pump would come from lending the oil companies a hand by letting them drill in protected areas… is also a lie.
If Exxon Mobil and other members of Big Oil wanted to lower prices for the American consumer at the pump, they could have done so by now. Instead, they would rather rip us off to the tune of 11.68 billion dollars in a single quarter.
We don’t need more drilling — we need to get off of oil as fast as possible!
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July 31st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Yep, it’s a good one–especially because it targets McCain’s core demographic: middle-class white folks of retirement age, and speaks to them in a non-condescending and non-alarmist way.
Greetings from another Lubbock leftie!
Dr Coyote