Gas and oil will save us all, say oil and gas companies
It’s supposedly the dawn of a new era for oil and gas. Oh wait, switch that to “natural gas and oil.”
The American Petroleum Institute, Big Oil’s biggest lobbying group,
is rolling out a new ad campaign focused on “energy progress” and
heralding its efforts to address the need for cleaner energy. “Natural
gas and oil,” says a new ad, reversing the usual order of things. “This is energy progress.”
The ads will appear
on TV, social media, and billboards around the country this year,
targeting oil-and-gas producing states like New Mexico and Pennsylvania
as well as swing districts in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. And it
just happens to coincide with a big election year.