Look for bogus "rallies" by "concerned citizens" to start mob-based interference on the upcoming debate on energy legislation...its having some limited success it seems w/health care and co's like Exxon certainly have the cash and lack the morals...so here comes round 2...
(this post originally appeared
here)
Leaked memo: Big Oil manufacturing ‘Energy Citizen’ rallies to oppose clean energy reform.
August 17, 2009
The American oil industry, working with a coalition of business interests, plans to manufacture
rallies in opposition to clean energy reform,
an internal document reveals. According to the plan acquired by
Greenpeace, the American Petroleum Institute (API) will “coordinate
transportation” for oil industry employees to “Energy Citizen” rallies
targeting U.S. Senators in 21 states. The document’s author, API
president Jack Gerard, discusses how it is “
important that our views” supplant “constituents’ views”:
The objective of these rallies is to put a human face on the impacts of unsound energy policy
and to aim a loud message at those states’ U.S. Senators to avoid the
mistakes embodied in the House climate bill and the Obama
Administration’s tax increases on our industry. Senate Majority Leader
Senator Harry Reid reportedly has pushed back consideration of climate
legislation to late September to allow Senators time to get their
constituents’ views during the August recess. It’s important that our views be heard.