Oil Drilling Advocates Drive Presidential Debate With Ads

Bloomberg:

While polls show the economy as the top concern of voters, a review of political attack ads suggests a different issue dominates: energy.

Americans for Prosperity, an organization backed by oil interests, last week began airing its third television commercial since November, a campaign worth $6.1 million, attacking Obama's green energy policies.

Read the whole story at Bloomberg

Comments

[sunsetter]

08:39 PM on 05/06/2012

Good - keep spending. where can I send a check?

[msuzye]

01:53 PM on 05/08/2012

You are already spending it at the gas pumps and Americans for Prosperity will make certain you keep spending it there.

[Baneblade]

01:30 PM on 05/01/2012

Republicans could solve the energy crisis by themselves. We could tap their wide rear ends for oil, run wind turbines on the hot air coming from their mouths, and heat our homes with their indignation whenever an immigrant strikes it rich.

[FaceReality2]

10:56 AM on 05/01/2012

"This administration has had an almost obsessive focus on their global warming agenda”

In wingnut world, trying to save the world from a man-made climate catastrophe is an "agenda." They believe that the scientific data accepted by every major scientific organization in the world is phony and that the whole climate change phenomenon is a worldwide socialist plot.

[qwert1234]

11:03 AM on 05/01/2012

it's because they think science is a joke

[philhellene]

11:14 AM on 05/01/2012

It's because putting people before profits is anathema to them.

[NovemberScorp]

10:39 AM on 05/01/2012

Running scared are we?

[Elbrando]

10:32 AM on 05/01/2012

Oil is Finite.

At the pace the world is using oil, we will have long since used our supply up before the end of this century. This means that unless the people running these companies change they will soon be as extinct as the dinosaurs that produced the oil to begin with.

We need other sources of energy. We have doubled our renewable energy sources these last four years we need to continue to double them.

We are currently using more and more power. Let's find more and more ways to generate that power.

[capitaldysfunction]

02:53 AM on 05/08/2012

The right will never buy that. Much too rational. They think if you just keep drilling, new discoveries are going to be made everywhere. Never mind that many areas are proving to be bust, not boom, or too expensive to risk...and the oil companies themselves are choosing not to take the expensive risk.

[AlonzoQuijana]

10:23 AM on 05/01/2012

Is it any wonder that the energy industry is upset with Obama? The "crucify them!" comments from the EPA District 6 Administrator (who had to resign under pressure) were classic: a direct attack on a job-creating, wealth-creating, tax-paying industry. If my industry's survival was threatened I'd spend as much money as possible to defend it.

[capitaldysfunction]

03:02 AM on 05/08/2012

The job creating and taxpaying part has been debunked. The wealth creation is all for the benefit of a small number of capitalists who think they are entitled to own the government and do anything they choose to the air and water.

Too bad the American people do not own the oil companies like the government of Norway, which shares its profits with its citizens who have the highest standard of living in the world.

[AlonzoQuijana]

08:19 AM on 05/08/2012

More liberal statism. Liberals won;t be satisfied until the entire economy is government controlled, Soviet style.

[linton]

10:22 AM on 05/01/2012

Wonder why gas prices have gone down slightly this week?

[Elbrando]

10:36 AM on 05/01/2012

Because president's have little control over oil going up or down. With the economy in Europe slowing as well as Asia this means less oil is being used. In some ways the austerity of Europe is slowing their economy so much that the price of gas will keep going down.

[linton]

11:18 AM on 05/01/2012

Well said.

[DrSkepsis]

10:10 AM on 05/01/2012

It's a big target.

[bordway]

10:10 AM on 05/01/2012

Oil companies don't have a leg to stand on. 2/3rds of drilling leases granted to oil companies sit idle. If you want to drill, begin drilling.

[philhellene]

11:16 AM on 05/01/2012

But, then that would bring more oil into the market which would drive down oil prices.

[bordway]

11:47 AM on 05/01/2012

Say it ain't so! Unfortunately that would only last so long, as the extraction of more difficult oil is making prices more inelastic.

[msuzye]

01:59 PM on 05/08/2012

But then they would not be able to accuse OBAMA and the democrats of stopping the drilling and forcing people to lose their jobs. They already have lost the battle on keeping America safe and taking away their guns. What do they have left but this stupid argument on drilling?

[US 395]

10:03 AM on 05/01/2012

Great news! Now every time I am purchasing gas, I am contributing against Obama.

[rjlwis]

10:11 AM on 05/01/2012

And contributing to less rights and a worse future for your children and their children. Hope you're happy!

[AlonzoQuijana]

10:25 AM on 05/01/2012

"Less rights?" You must be a product of our failed public education system. It is "fewer rights." That's pretty basic grammar.

[Mohammed duDew]

10:02 AM on 05/01/2012

Oil is what keeps the nation moving. This administration shows all signs of wanting to cripple the economy and the nation. Mitt, the Savior, will reverse four years of intentional destruction.

[qwert1234]

10:14 AM on 05/01/2012

why does this administration want to cripple the economy and the nation? what exactly is the end goal? paranoid delusions of supervillains bent on destroying the world make your side look nutty.

[philhellene]

11:20 AM on 05/01/2012

Mitt, the Savior?

Maybe, sometime, he can come down from that golden cross of his and mix it up the rest of us: ain't holding my breath on that one.

And, yes, wearing a flag on your lapel is the equivalent of wearing your heart on your sleeve - pure show.

[BBackSoon]

10:02 AM on 05/01/2012

How dare we even consider any kind of energy that isn't extracted from the ground and burnt!

But personally I would be happy to pay the Big Oil companies for the energy that solar arrays on my roof would produce. That is what is so maddening, I don't care if my car runs on yak pizz, as long as it is no more expensive than what I pay right now.

But they are against anything that will lesson their profits on oil.

[7thcavman]

09:52 AM on 05/01/2012

What's the big deal? We have the best government money can buy. Welcome to the "Corporate States of America."

[US 395]

10:02 AM on 05/01/2012

That's really original lib!

[Elbrando]

10:33 AM on 05/01/2012

and true.

[Rangergirl]

09:44 AM on 05/01/2012

Lets see, big oil, banks, insurance companies, are all thowing tons of money at Mitt Romneys campaign, that tells me that all the more I will be voting straight democratic in 2012. This tells me exactly who Mitt will be working for. NOT the Poor, Not the Middle Class. Not the workers of America. He is not going to work for tha Average wage earner... Wake up America

[Robaloba]

09:50 AM on 05/01/2012

Nail on the head...if only more voters had your clarity of mind!

F&F'ed

[Alux]

09:55 AM on 05/01/2012

Rangergirl, stop joking. Was there ever a single second in your entire life that you would NOT have voted a straight democratic ticket?

[Rangergirl]

09:57 AM on 05/01/2012

Yes

[ruthtruth]

09:41 AM on 05/01/2012

How anyone can watch an ad by big oil and believe a thing they say evidently can be sold anything. Big oil hates that the President wants this country to stop being dependent on them and they will try and do whatever it takes to stop him from helping this country become energy independent. Big oil's allies in Congress have no problem spewing their talking points for them while pockets get lined with MONEY.