Sentences with phrase «powerful oil lobby»

Simpson - Bowles proposes a 15 cent a gallon gasoline tax hike which not only generates relatively little revenue for its political risk, but singles out the powerful oil lobby.

So the powerful auto lobby and the powerful oil lobby couldn't stop one person who nearly went broke getting Tesla off the ground.

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Well Bill, I guess I do not see your group / religion as any more than a powerful lobby group, no different than oil and gas, defence industries, tobacco, NRA gun industry, etc..

The powerful lobbying organisation, which receives funding from pharmaceutical, weapons and oil interests among others, is heavily funded by the Koch Charitable Foundation whose founder, Charles G Koch, is one of the most generous donors to the Tea Party movement in the US.

The president of another powerful lobby group, the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, believes the oil - price slide may have helped his cause.

USA, with all powerful coal, oil, corn lobbies, will not follow and will keep using low cost dirty energy sources regardless of the negative effects on the people health and well being.

I feel like the early climate scientists in the»70s fighting against the oil lobby... I guess I had the realisation that the climate lobby is perhaps more powerful than the energy lobby was back in the»70s — and the politics of climate I think there's a lot of emotion in this debate.

plausible «conspiracy theory»: that fossil energy companies, driven by the need to protect hundreds of billions of dollars of profits, encourage obfuscation of the inconvenient scientific results... Challenging vested interests as powerful as the oil and coal lobbies was never going to be easy... Scientists are not naturally aggressive defenders of arguments... The skeptics are far, far more determined and expert propagandists to boot.