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A look into Big Oil's fight against electric cars
Last November, oil industry representatives huddled with conservative state lawmakers at a hotel a few blocks from the White House. The meeting underscored
Big Oil Schemes To Crush the Electric Car Market
The U.S. electric vehicle market is exploding – up 81 percent last year over 2017. That's got the oil industry worried, and Big Oil is scheming to kneecap the EV boom.
The state of Michigan filed a lawsuit in federal court last week against major oil companies including ExxonMobil and Chevron, accusing them of engaging in a decades-long conspiracy to block the development of clean energy and electric vehicles.
Did Big Oil Conspire to Kneecap the EV Industry?
The state of Michigan filed a lawsuit in federal court last week against major oil companies including ExxonMobil and Chevron, accusing them of engaging in a decades-long conspiracy to block the development of clean energy and electric vehicles.
Fossil fuel lobby pulls out all the stops against new car emissions rules in the US
The EPA rule limits tailpipe emissions from new cars starting in 2027, which the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers likens to a “ban” on gas cars in a hyperbolic ad campaign
Fossil fuel lobby pulls out all the stops against new car emissions rules in the US
The EPA rule limits tailpipe emissions from new cars starting in 2027, which the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers likens to a “ban” on gas cars in a hyperbolic ad campaign
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The oil industry is trying to crush the booming electric car movement.
Groups backed by industry giants like Exxon Mobil and the Koch empire are waging a state-by-state, multimillion-dollar battle to squelch utilities’ plans to build charging stations across the country. Environmentalists call the fight a reprise of the “Who Killed the Electric Car?” battles that doomed an earlier generation of battery-driven vehicles in the 1990s.
Oil industry has sought to block state backing for green tech since 1960s
Research shows industry lobbying against support for solar panels and electric cars while enjoying subsidies itself
The oil industry has fought against government support for clean technologies for more than half a century, the Guardian can reveal, even as vast subsidies have propped up its polluting business model.
It lobbied lawmakers to block support for low-carbon technologies such as solar panels, electric cars and heat pumps as far back as the 1960s, analysis shows. Trade associations in the US and Europe stymied green innovations under the guise of supporting a “technology neutral” approach to avoiding the damage done by burning their fuels.
The same incumbents were happy to lobby for government support when they were getting started, and had continued to benefit from it since, said Dario Kenner, a visiting research fellow at the University of Sussex who trawled through decades of public statements from the American Petroleum Institute (API) and FuelsEurope.