@waltbaldwin Sounds like an Oily Boy, bought and paid for by big oil. #OilyBoys

@The14 I propose we force Big Oil to fund the transition to net-zero homes (and net-zero transit) as a just punishment for their decades of climate disinformation. #OilyBoys

@gdeihl @breadandcircuses
Adding this to the thread from #HEATED newsletter. No, DeSantis alone didn’t cause Milton.

But YES! all the deny-and-delay politicians that the #OilyBoys have bought since the 1970s did & still do have a big hand in it. We knew enough in the 1970s to begin phasing out fossil fuels. We knew and #TheyKnew. #ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow @emorwee

https://open.substack.com/pub/heated/p/milton-is-a-monster-elected-leaders

@DeanBaker13

“Trumpers for Black Lung Disease!”

Meanwhile, the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act has already created over 170,000 clean energy jobs and is anticipated to create 1,000,000 new jobs per year over the next decade (https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/site/9-million-good-jobs-from-climate-action-the-inflation-reduction-act/)

Unless the #OilyBoys regain control of Congress & White House and repeal the clean energy parts of IRA (which they want to do).

@DoomsdaysCW

Thank you for the added context.

Everyone should know about this travesty.

And for every Steven Donziger, there are probably a thousand people of lesser means and stature that have been trampled by the #OilyBoys

@MichaelEMann

Of course, this means a massive scale-up of electricity production from green sources.

I’ve been lukewarm on green hydrogen because of the much greater efficiency of charging batteries vs splitting water. But for hard-to-battery-power applications, I definitely see the need.

We just need to be vigilant at shutting down the #OilyBoys, who plan to use hydrogen as a ticket to keep drillin’ and pollutin.’

@GeraldKutney

Grand Oil Party. I like that.

My chosen term for fossil-fuel-funded politicians and the corporations that fund them is Oily Boys, after the Greg Brown song by that name, released during the oil wars of the GW Bush admin: https://youtu.be/FdLtbGCH1-c?si=tWJUaIjzPeVgkFcd

@waltbaldwin

“Driver, take me to Armageddon and STEP ON IT!”

@Dragofix That lack of political will was purchased by the Oily Boys, both in the direct purchasing of politicians, and the concomitant disinformation campaigns that they foisted on the masses. There’s a special place in hell for them. #OilyBoys

@fionag11

of course. They’re #OilyBoys therefore they are evil to the core.

@Bentley Panel of 3 Trump-appointed judges. Big surprise. Elections have consequences…sometimes disastrous consequences. #OilyBoys #TuckFrump

@rahmstorf I suspect the same #oilyBoys are behind a lot of anti-EV backlash

@WolfgangFeist

Green hydrogen was once an interesting idea. But since 99% of hydrogen on the market is simply fossil fuel in disguise, it seems that those promoting hydrogen as the future are the very people who are selling us fossil fuels.

An article that solely focuses on a few Democrats’ corruption by the petro fascists, while ignoring gop corruption, is misleading and feeds into the zombie myth that both parties are just as bad.

Again, #gop much more corrupted by and subservient to the #OilyBoys than #dems.

And a number of politicians—nearly all Democrats—have pledged not to accept fossil fuel funding: https://nofossilfuelmoney.org/congressional-signers/