Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠
A Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy Future
In a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts.
Recent example: Volta built L2 EV chargers at shopping malls with big screens. The chargers were free, supported by ad sales for the screens.
Shell bought out Volta, removed many chargers, and the charges are no longer free.
Oil companies are the wealthiest companies in the world and reprehensible polluters responsible for global warming—yet despite huge profits, our taxes annually subsidize oil/ gas with ~$35 billion in tax breaks plus royalty relief on federal lands.
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New Report Reveals U.S. Oil and Gas Companies Pay More Tax to Petrostates Than to the U.S. Government
FACT’s latest report analyzes the tax disclosures of 11 U.S. oil and gas multinational companies, and calls for the elimination of harmful subsidies for extraction abroad.
hey look!
it's the tobacco industry wearing new clothes.
Follow the money. who's controlling the corrupt GOP.
Which US/NATO adversaries (dictators) are investing in US technology, SuperPACs to sustain oil dependent countries & their dictators' power?
Saudi Prince? Putin? Invested in Musk/Thiel technologies, including propaganda media purchase ($40B).
It's not a secret oil cartel; They literally have gas stations on every street corner of every town in America. They can be found all over the world, from the deepest jungle to remote deserts, and have been lying and erasing alternatives since they did away with horse-drawn carriages.
Did same in 1940’s & 1950’s in San Francisco CA. Bought the Bay Bridge train service & closed it down. Campaigned & stopped expansion of BART & Cal Trans from crossing the Bay. Started filling in the SF Bay to promote driving. Save the Bay Foundation formed by CEO wives stopped it. GO GIRLS!
This shit goes back a LONG time
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General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia
Disgusting unethical behavior…but no surprise.
Wouldn't be the first time they did some bullshit like this!
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Who Killed the Electric Car is a documentary about TRUE reality events, in other words NON-FICTION
YouTube video by Marc Lieberman
They bought and buried a large number of patents over the years - for GREED.
"America is an oil company with an army." -George Carlin
Watch "Who Killed the Electric Car" sometime. The lack of foresight, ingenuity and innovation demonstrated by the moneyed interests doing this work is astounding. It's actually contrary to everything this economy is supposed to be built on, & it's bad for the country and our sustainability.
Saudi whales are the ones keeping Tesla stock from diving. Tesla is the most dangerous automotive brand on the market, and its vehicles are wildly overpriced.
Reagan ripped the solar panels off the white house roof. at that point the USA was the leader in alternative energy research.
I live in Portugal where on any given day between 85% and 90% of its electricity comes from renewable sources. It’s not a wealthy country, but it’s not owned by the oil companies. EVs are plentiful here. The world is leaving the United States behind in so many ways.
Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary that explores the creation, limited commercialization and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States.
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Who Killed The Electric Car - Trailer
YouTube video by EV1Forever
I used to think it was people's fault, for not understanding climate change and wanting to take action. But having seen the weight and strength of the fossil fuel corporate power in manipulating their minds, it's clear where the responsibility for climate change lies.
