Q1 lobbying: Big Oil spends over $7.2 million fighting bills to make polluters pay - The Climate Center
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SACRAMENTO — Lobbying disclosures for quarter one show that the oil industry spent over $7.2 million to kill California legislation that would make corporate polluters pay their fair share. The top five oil industry spenders alone spent over $6.1 million to influence California state leaders, led by Chevron at over $3 million. The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), a front
    • lettruthout@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      5 months ago

      Maybe we shouldn’t fight it any more. Maybe we should just keep upping the price so much that it would no longer be economically viable for bribe lobby our politicians. Would they keep up their polluting ways if the price was $72M? How about $720M?

      • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
        9·
        5 months ago

        It has to be more than the corporations are able to make in a year, otherwise, it’s just “cost of doing business”

  • MuchPineapples@lemmy.world
    8·
    5 months ago

    7.2 million is literally pocket change for these people, they don’t even know it’s gone. Politicians are so cheap. I heard somewhere you can have a governor for like 50k. Maybe we should do a bribe lobby crowdfunding?

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      3·
      5 months ago

      It would be straightforward to have a group fundraiser, where people as a group each make a political contribution in exchange for attendance at a zoom event. What you can’t do is give money to another person to give to to a politician — that’s a felony.

      • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
        1·
        5 months ago

        Even if you could, they would take citizens money then take the double sized offer from companies and ignore citizens anyways.