Joel Pett for July 27, 2023

I can easily understand business ignoring anything that don’t grok with the profits.

I can easily understand wanting / needing cheap gas & HVAC so much that you don’t want to face the truth.

But I still have no clue as to how the denial lie is still accepted by millions. I mean, this s#it will kill us all. Whaddaya stupid or somthin?

The liars made a good profit selling out the earth’s climate.

Fox still broadcasts that there is no such thing as climate change, right?

The fossil fuel industry has almost unlimited money to buy politicians, per Citizens United. The ten top recipients of fossil fuel money in Congress last year were:

Manchin, Joe (D-WV) $724,270

McCarthy, Kevin (R-CA) $396,284

Lankford, James (R-OK) $275,148

Pfluger, August (R-TX) $268,011

Kennedy, John (R-LA) $264,788

Murkowski, Lisa (R-AK) $249,808

Sinema, Kyrsten (D-AZ) $230,160

Fletcher, Lizzie (D-TX) $191,765

Cuellar, Henry (D-TX) $191,450

Scott, Tim (R-SC) $181,291

Scalise, Steve (R-LA) $181,263

Gonzales, Tony (R-TX) $174,461

Rubio, Marco (R-FL) $165,636

Amazing how little it costs to buy a member of Congress to keep your multi-billion-dollar-a-year profits flowing, isn’t it?

Here’s who opensecrets.org says are the top fossil fuel money recipients through their careers:

Romney, Mitt (R-UT) $8,291,262

Cornyn, John (R-TX) $4,678,062

Cruz, Ted (R-TX) $4,138,421

McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) $2,852,107

McCarthy, Kevin (R-CA) $2,581,832

Hutchison, Kay Bailey (R-TX) $2,332,021

Inhofe, James M (R-OK) $2,320,139

Pearce, Steve (R-NM) $2,236,714

Barton, Joe (R-TX) $2,211,987

Brady, Kevin (R-TX) $2,087,396

Scalise, Steve (R-LA) $1,847,013

Murkowski, Lisa (R-AK) $1,792,602

Failed predictions for decades…