regular people pimping for the american petroleum institute

[spanone]

just saw a commercial where 'regular people' are whining about raising taxes on the oil companies.....

this country is totally upside down.....

brought to you by the american petroleum institute

[Raster]

1. The American Petroleum Institute is the mouthpiece for the Texas-American Petroleum Mafia.

They currently have favored tax status and receive government subsidies in addition to their record obscene profits. The two "enterprises" most dangerous to American democracy are the Petroleum Mafia and their symbiotic twin the Military/Industrial Complex. Neither can survive without the other, and both will do ANYTHING to defend the others profits and political standing. Just about every American politician is owned and controlled by the Petroleum Mafia and the MIC.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. "Sob, sob, the poor Oil Industry!

"So many taxes, so much hardship. I feel their pain."

R .i.i.i.i.i.i.i.g.h.t.

[Botany]

3. Same people who brought us a former Miss World to tell the world .....

...... about what a good idea that deep ocean drilling is for all of us.



She was all over the T.V. but that was before the April 2010 BP oil rig blow
out in the Gulf of Mexico.

[midnight]

4. True. Last night I saw a P.B. commercial talking about

how B.P. is doing the right thing for the shrimpers, and the women telling the story says she grew up in Louisiana.

[ellenfl]

5. not to mention all the others corporations airing feel good ads. eom

[spanone]

6. actually these 'regular people' are actors, screened & auditioned to appear regular

it's the teevee-sell everything-syndrome

[Wednesdays]

7. Here's the commercial

If this isn't the exact commercial in the OP, it's something very similar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2rT-ZfI92Y

[jtrockville]

8. How about we just stop SUBSIDIZING the oil industry?

This industry is making record-SHATTERING profits. Why are we subsidizing them?

[mopinko]

9. my head exploded when i saw that commercial

i really laugh that they are showing it on ko and trms.