Facebook & Oil Industry Push Fuel Propaganda As EPA Slashes More Regulations

Via America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio and Trial Magazine Executive Editor Farron Cousins take a look at Marathon Petroleum, an example of the fossil fuel industry quietly working behind the scenes to make sure that we keep certain policies in place, and to reduce fuel economy standards for cars. Later in the show, RT Correspondent Brigida Santos discusses the case of a Yemeni citizen who’s been detained at Guantanamo Bay for 17 years without charge, is now petitioning the Supreme Court to review his case. Plus, a discussion with Legal Journalist Mollye Barrows on an unexpected act of Mercy in Tennessee.

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If you aren't already convinced that corporations control the federal government, then look at the administration's efforts to roll back fuel economy standards for cars. This entire initiative was created and drafted and executed by the fossil fuel industry and the administration gave them a rubber stamp of approval. Now, Farron, I'd like to say that this is new, but it's not. It's called corporate capture. That's what's happening here. We used to have industry that was actually they had to answer to somebody, but not anymore. Now you have regulatory agencies that really don't care if they answer. This story is particularly bothersome because it's being sold. Facebook, we're going to talk about Facebook a lot in the next few weeks, but Facebook is that they're the go to people to sell the idea and the idea, this is the talking point, we should have a car freedom agenda. We should be able to choose if we want to drive, if we want to drive a gas guzzler, we ought to be able to do it. So now the fuel industry is secretly doing this. They real stealth operation. The Koch brothers running through Facebook. What's your take on this story?

This is such a massive new report and again, it's disappointing something like this doesn't get the coverage that it deserves, but what happened is that we had journalists who uncovered this massive scam, it was being run primarily by Marathon Oil, with funding from the Koch brothers going through the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC. So you have all the major players out there, all of them out there. And what they're doing is they're going state by state as one example, and helping draft legislation saying, hey, your state, don't you want to be able to choose what happens in your state rather than let those guys in DC decide for you. So here's what you do and this, I think it was an 18 word bill, they helped each state draft was.

Drafted by the industry.

Right, by the industry, and handed over to them that essentially said, we're going to set our own fuel economy standards for our vehicles. So that was one path. The second one was that they wanted everybody in this country to submit a request to the EPA that says, allow us the freedom of choice, the freedom to pollute more.

A Facebook ad?

Right, and this was a Facebook ad. They had two different ads. One of them had Obama in this evil looking picture that said, would you buy a used car from this man? And the other one had Donald Trump looking heroic, saying support the president's freedom agenda.

Okay, let me talk about the bottom feeders. There's so many bottom feeders here beside the Kochs. We talk about Koch brothers, obviously you're talking about the bottom feeders, but there are a lot others here. You're talking about Ogilvy. Okay. The reason I know about Ogilvy, the PR firm there is not, and they go all the way back to tobacco. Now, here's what's interesting about this story. In tobacco, what Ogilvy has came up with this idea. The way we're going to let people keep killing themselves is to say, you have the choice.