Oil industry

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/13/2022
  

  How the Resurgent Oil Industry is Driving the Politics and Reaping the Profits of Gas Prices

  by Gregory Brew

  Unlike past moments of high prices, American consumers and businesses today are facing no pressure to lower their consumption of oil and gas, even as the climate crisis grows increasingly dire. 

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  11/10/2021
  

  What Big Oil Knew About Climate Change Since 1959

  "Before San Francisco’s Summer of Love, before Woodstock, the peak of the ’60s counterculture and all that stuff that seemed ancient history to me, the heads of the oil industry were privately informed by their own leaders that their products would eventually alter the climate of the entire planet."

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/28/2020
  

  The Beginning of the End for Oil?

  by Michael T. Klare

  If there is a silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that it creates the conditions necessary to do what we have known was necessessary for decades: drastically curtail fossil fuel consumption.