Over two—thirds of voters don't like Trump's offer to end environmental rules in exchange for one billion dollars from oil executives. It would be a shame if this financial news got on every newspaper front page and cable talk show in the country.
It is just days after a brutal heat wave and record-breaking rainfall, leaving 800,000 people without power, crippled Houston. It is there that fossil fuel executives will fill Trump’s coffers. He promised that, as a dictator, he would “drill, drill, drill” on day one. Killing the biosphere would be his top priority; the fossil fuel industry has him wrapped around their little finger.
The urgent task of preventing and eventually ending greenhouse gas emissions into the rapidly heating atmosphere will end any sliver of hope to prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis if Trump is elected.
From the Hill:
Broad majorities of voters aren’t happy with Trump’s apparent offer of a quid pro quo to oil companies, a poll from an advocacy group has found.
Almost 6 in 10 likely voters surveyed — 58 percent — said they were “concerned” about a second Trump term after hearing about the former president’s reported offer to undo broad swaths of President Biden’s climate policies, according to polling by Data for Progress and Climate Power.
Last month at Mar-a-Lago, Trump asked oil executives for campaign cash. Three have taken him up on the offer. Today, a fundraiser will be held in Houston, Texas, the capital of the oil industry—the first of many yet to come.
(Reuters) - The leaders of three big U.S. oil companies will host a fundraising luncheon in Houston on Wednesday benefiting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to a copy of an invitation seen by Reuters.
Drillers tend to back Trump’s pro-fossil fuel and anti-regulation agenda and have been critical of President Joe Biden’s efforts to phase out oil and gas in favor of renewables.
The luncheon, which will be held at Houston’s Post Oak Hotel, is hosted by Harold Hamm, founder of Continental Resources; Kelcy Warren, executive chairman of Energy Transfer Partners; and Vicki Hollub, CEO of Occidental Petroleum, according to the invitation.
Trump is scheduled to speak.
Asked about the luncheon, Hollub told Reuters she is speaking with policymakers from both parties to express Occidental’s support for federal subsidies for carbon capture technologies that can keep greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
Of course, Hollub is greenwashing us on a technology that does not exist on scale. They may get a lot of our tax dollars, though, to research the bullshit.