Follow the money: Big oil funds attack ads blaming Senate Dems for high gas prices
Gas prices have trended downward since June 2022.
By Jesse Valentine - August 02, 2024Gas prices have trended downward since June 2022.
By Jesse Valentine - August 02, 2024Republicans criticized the President’s decision to release fuel from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve throughout 2022. It ended up bringing the U.S. billions of dollars and aligned with lower gas prices.
By Oliver Willis - December 20, 2022New York Republican Mike Lawler is pushing for more fossil fuel production in the face of climate change.
By Josh Israel - October 31, 2022ExxonMobil is one of several American oil companies reporting billions in profits in recent months while gas prices skyrocketed.
By Oliver Willis - October 28, 2022Ohio Republican Senate nominee J.D. Vance personally profits from oil and gas companies and has broken his promise not to take their campaign donations.
By Josh Israel - October 06, 2022The consumer confidence index rebounded in August as inflation moderated and gas prices fell.
By Associated Press - September 01, 2022Democratic victories in recent special congressional elections have observers adjusting their predictions for the 2022 midterm elections.
By Emily Singer - August 29, 2022To notable economic impact, President Joe Biden has released millions of barrels of oil into the market and prioritized improvement of the supply chain.
By Oliver Willis - August 10, 2022The improvements in consumer outlook come along with other positive indicators about the overall health of the U.S. economy.
By Oliver Willis - August 08, 2022The American Action Network makes no mention of its fossil fuel donors in a barrage of attack ads against Democratic House incumbents.
By Josh Israel - July 27, 2022The Republican nominee has claimed high gas prices have nothing to do with ‘greedy oil executives.’
By Josh Israel - July 27, 2022The North Carolina Republican Senate nominee has repeatedly sided with the energy sector over environmental protections.
By Josh Israel - July 18, 2022Pennsylvania Republican Senate nominee Mehmet Oz claims without evidence that environmental regulations are responsible for oil companies’ high prices.
By Josh Israel - June 23, 2022United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that ‘fossil fuel producers and financiers have humanity by the throat.’
By Associated Press - June 17, 2022Large oil companies took in over $22 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2022 as gas prices have soared.
By Oliver Willis - June 15, 2022The Republican candidate has gotten much of his corporate PAC funding from the fossil fuel industry.
By Josh Israel - June 07, 2022Nearly all of Adam Laxalt’s corporate campaign donations have come from the oil and gas sector.
By Josh Israel - March 14, 2022Their false attempts to blame President Joe Biden have been widely debunked.
By Josh Israel - March 10, 2022Every Republican senator voted against President Joe Biden’s plan to invest $555 billion in clean energy and combating climate change.
By Josh Israel - March 08, 2022South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune proposed a federal gas tax holiday in 2006. Now he’s criticizing Democratic colleagues for doing the same thing in 2022.
By Josh Israel - February 15, 2022Families also expressed optimism about fuel and food costs in a survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
By Oliver Willis - January 10, 2022The Biden administration has introduced its strategy to build 500,000 charging stations for electric vehicles across the country in the next several years.
By Associated Press - December 22, 2021GOP lawmakers are mad that Biden is releasing some of the federal petroleum supply to reduce fuel costs ahead of the holidays.
By Josh Israel - November 23, 2021The GOP is citing prices from what is likely the most expensive gas station in America to try to prove their point.
By Josh Israel - October 29, 2021Fox News is misleading viewers on the true reason for increased gas prices.
By Oliver Willis - October 14, 2021The Federal Trade Commission recently announced increased scrutiny of possible price manipulation within the gas industry.
By Oliver Willis - September 22, 2021The New York Republican congresswoman is comparing today’s gas prices to those from the middle of the pandemic, when gas was cheap because the country was in lockdown.
By Emily Singer - July 06, 2021