Campaign Targets "Separation of Oil and State"

Oil Change International is a well known web site for tracking petroleum industry campaign contributions. All you need is a zip code or the name of a Congressperson and the web tool tells you the oily story: how many petroleum industry dollars flowed into your representative's campaign coffers since 2000, and how often he or she voted in their favor.

Funding links are extracted from the public records available from the Federal Election Commission. Data is updated monthly and provided by the Center for Responsive Politics.

There's no reason not to know. It's as easy as looking up how many grams of fat are in that pint of ice cream you're about to eat.

Now Oil Change has launched a campaign to put that oily knowledge to use: a campaign calling for a separation of oil and state.

Catchy. And it gets right at a fundamental choice voters must make in the November elections.

Just go here to sign the following pledge.

I believe in a Separation of Oil and State. I support candidates who are least beholden to Big Oil and who vote to end fossil fuel subsidies and fund clean energy.

And while you're there, you can also use an Oil Dollar Machine that lets you download, save and print oil dollar bills that feature your member of Congress. Oil dollars show your member or candidate in the middle of the bill with the total dollar amount of oil money they took in.

 

Comments

[ToonMoene]

Exactly. That's why people should have voted for Kerry 4 years ago: Tomatoes grow almost everywhere.

[KillTheMessenger]

"Tomatoes grow almost everywhere."

Not in Alaska, they don't.