The Dirty Koch Brothers Launch Their Latest Spin Campaign

As if we haven?t heard enough from the Dirty Koch Brothers, now comes their latest scheme:� This week, Americans for Prosperity -- which is founded and funded by dirty energy giant Koch Industries -- is launching its ?Running on Empty Tour? in an attempt to blame high gas prices on the environmental safety regulations and the Obama Administration. ��You can be pretty sure they?re not going to talking about how gas prices are affected by Big Oil companies, foreign governments or oil industry speculators like, say, Koch Industries.� They?re planning to preach their lies in places like Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri.
These wealthy fat cats are working hard to advance their misguided, dirty agenda which is full of falsehoods and great for their corporate bottom line -- but it isn?t good for your family or your community.� Here are a few examples of their lies:

The fossil fuel industry has told you that carbon dioxide is good for you when, in fact, increased carbon pollution is expected to create more smog, which can trigger chest pain, coughing, throat irritation, and congestion (and can worsen bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma). Exposure to ground-level ozone smog can also reduce lung function and inflame the linings of the lungs; repeated exposure may permanently scar lung tissue.
These wanna-be corporate puppet-masters have paid questionable scientists to question the abundant evidence that climate change is happening when 97% of climate researchers believe in man-made climate change.
They have scared families into thinking that addressing pollution will greatly harm the household budget.� In fact, multiple studies show that the various bills considered by Congress in the past cost relative pennies ? and may actually save many families money, depending on where you live.
They have convinced an entire political party to forget science in the name of radical politics as we see more severe droughts, flooding and other weather events ? all predicted as a result of global warming.� The entire Republican Presidential field has turned a blind eye in fear of angering the corporate sugar daddies.

The lies just keep piling up.� They are spread like urban legend on talk-radio and even in the Capitol.
The solutions they propose in this latest roadshow, like more drilling, will not reduce your gas prices.� In fact, as much as it disturbs me as an environmentalist, the truth is that U.S. Oil production is higher under the Obama administration than it has been in years, according to the Energy Information Administration. Claims that drilling permits are being held up by environmental rules and the Obama Administration are just bogus. The agency that issues offshore drilling permits, in fact has issued shallow water drilling permits at a rate of six per month since October 2010.
The five largest privately held oil companies ? BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell ? earned profits totaling $901 billion between 2001 and 2010, the non-profit Center for American Progress calculated using companies? annual reports. And as prices rise, those profits will grow. Big Oil takes care of itself.
Their lies are making us less healthy, our economy less sustainable, our security more questionable and our environment dirtier.� We should do everything we can to stop them.

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