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Elizabeth Warren torches Big Oil in a signature Elizabeth Warren moment:
Elizabeth Warren torches Big Oil in a signature Elizabeth Warren moment: “We weren’t sent here to work for them”
SALON
10/7/2015
Republicans want to lift the ban on crude oil exports -- but Warren demands to hear from the experts first
by
Sophia Tesfaye
Big Oil would like to export unlimited amounts of crude oil outside of the U.S. to increase their profits, but there is a longstanding ban on crude oil exports standing in the way. What’s a Big Oil executive to do? Spend millions to lobby Congress to change the rules, of course.
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The oil industry has financed organizations whose scholars have generated reports praising the proposal. It has placed op-eds in Capitol Hill newspapers and paid for television spots in key markets..........Industry executives have even pressed foreign governments to communicate their support through “diplomatic channels.” And they have enlisted help from lawmakers from major oil-producing states...........Think tanks have been a critical part of the repeal effort, with prominent centers like the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute issuing reports or sending scholars to Capitol Hill endorsing the move. These same organizations have taken large donations — in some instances exceeding $1 million a year, as was the case for Brookings — in combined contributions from industry donors.........
While the offensive will likely work in the Republican-led House, which is set to vote on repeal this Friday, the White House has already intimated it has no interest in reversing the ban, citing environmental concerns associated with increased production, and at least one Senate Democrat is fed up with the so-called “experts” Big Oil has trouted out before Congress to downplay the effects of climate change.
“We’ve held a hearing on the export ban in July,” Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said during a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee last week. “But the only witness — the only witness testifying on the climate effects of this bill was a conservative economist who thinks, quote, ‘No one really knows’ the extent to which humans are causing climate change,” she added incredulously.
“The most obvious effect of lifting the crude oil export ban would be to produce enormous profits for a number of big oil companies,” Warren continued. “And that is a reason by itself to be skeptical of study after study and expert after expert that have been funded by big oil to try to sell this deal.”.........
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/07/elizabeth_warren_torches_big_oil_in_a_signature_elizabeth_warren_moment_we_werent_sent_here_to_work_for_them/
SALON
10/7/2015
Republicans want to lift the ban on crude oil exports -- but Warren demands to hear from the experts first
by
Sophia Tesfaye
Big Oil would like to export unlimited amounts of crude oil outside of the U.S. to increase their profits, but there is a longstanding ban on crude oil exports standing in the way. What’s a Big Oil executive to do? Spend millions to lobby Congress to change the rules, of course.
...Snip..........
The oil industry has financed organizations whose scholars have generated reports praising the proposal. It has placed op-eds in Capitol Hill newspapers and paid for television spots in key markets..........Industry executives have even pressed foreign governments to communicate their support through “diplomatic channels.” And they have enlisted help from lawmakers from major oil-producing states...........Think tanks have been a critical part of the repeal effort, with prominent centers like the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute issuing reports or sending scholars to Capitol Hill endorsing the move. These same organizations have taken large donations — in some instances exceeding $1 million a year, as was the case for Brookings — in combined contributions from industry donors.........
While the offensive will likely work in the Republican-led House, which is set to vote on repeal this Friday, the White House has already intimated it has no interest in reversing the ban, citing environmental concerns associated with increased production, and at least one Senate Democrat is fed up with the so-called “experts” Big Oil has trouted out before Congress to downplay the effects of climate change.
“We’ve held a hearing on the export ban in July,” Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said during a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee last week. “But the only witness — the only witness testifying on the climate effects of this bill was a conservative economist who thinks, quote, ‘No one really knows’ the extent to which humans are causing climate change,” she added incredulously.
“The most obvious effect of lifting the crude oil export ban would be to produce enormous profits for a number of big oil companies,” Warren continued. “And that is a reason by itself to be skeptical of study after study and expert after expert that have been funded by big oil to try to sell this deal.”.........
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/07/elizabeth_warren_torches_big_oil_in_a_signature_elizabeth_warren_moment_we_werent_sent_here_to_work_for_them/
God I love her. I wish we could clone her!
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But we need her just as badly in the Senate.
Senator Warren ----> 
