The GOP Corporate Personhood war on America's 99% is being led by Big Oil. Naively, I use to think it was just America against the Middle-East Oil fields' dictators, Shieks and Shahs.
I've been digging in the Heartland, which led me to ALEC, which showed me the money from the Koch Brothers and Exxon/Mobile coffers.
I had read a little ditty about General Motors pulling their funding from a rightwing think tank the Heartland:
General Motors pulls funding from climate sceptic thinktank Heartland
Which wasn't that much money, but General Motors is now onboard with more green energy vehicles, Thanks to President Obama's bail out.
ALEC, another major right wing think tank player is well-funded by the dirty Koch Brothers AND Exxon/Mobile.
ALEC main funder
You can read all the organizations that Exxon/Mobile contribute too, probably with all those billions of dollars profit tax rebates the Republican Congress won't let go of. And we thought those rebates went for more Drill baby Drill expeditions...BUT, NO! That money is funneled back to the Corporate Lobbyists and bought Politicians, ThinkTanks and POLICY WRITERS, RightWing BRAINWASHERS, etc., to keep the 1 % the 1 %.
The Koch Brothers who Proudly state: "My joke is that we're the biggest company you've never heard of." – David Koch are part of the BIG OIL GROUP.
Factsheet: Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine
Koch Industries, an oil supply and refining company, is one of the largest private corporations in the country. Despite being virtually invisible to the public, Koch Industries is a top lobbying spender, a massive funding source to climate-denial front-groups, and major force fighting against clean energy policies. Charles and David Koch, who own and control the corporation, drive the anti-environmental political spending.
Most of us drive cars and trucks with gas, use oil to heat our homes and without that black gold the world would just about stop. It is the Life Blood of our world in Motion. We all need it, we all want it cheaper. THEY tell us over and over the price is determined by supply and demand and I don't doubt Some of that explanation, but once one realizes Who is really in the Driver's Seat (Big Oil Corps.) one begins to realize that we are at their Mercy.
The other big institutions have just jumped on the Big Oil bandwagon for Distraction and to get their Piece of Pie.
Global warming may be happening because the planet's OIL Life Blood is and will be sucked from the bowels of Earth until THEY get the last drop.
I don't see this ever changing in my lifetime unless we all start using bicycles.
This is a reality check downer to me. Now I'm not sure what the heck we're fighting for anymore. I don't see how we can really change anything these days.