DECODING BIG OIL LIES

Extending the Cap-and-Trade program “as is” through 2045, as Governor Gavin Newsom proposed, locks in billions of dollars in taxpayer giveaways to some of the largest and most profitable companies in the oil and gas industry.

Big Oil – the state’s biggest source of pollution by far – wants to protect this pork padding its profits. But publicly the industry cloaks this agenda with lip-service to “affordability.” LEARN HERE what Big Oil’s talking points really mean and why state lawmakers can’t take them at their word.

BIG OIL COOKS THE NUMBERS

Trust Big Oil to make life more affordable in California? NO WAY!

Big Oil is using a sham report produced by one of its own economists to hold legislators hostage, telling lawmakers to back off pollution rules or else: the oil companies will be forced to charge Californians to pay more at the pump. Threatening to gouge us, even as they’re being investigated for gouging us? That’s a move so slick only Big OiI would try it.

LEARN HERE what Big Oil’s talking points really mean and why state lawmakers can’t take them at their word.