T.V. Ad Reveals Oil Companies’ Misinformation on the Clean Fuels Standard

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Nada Sewidan, GoLocalPDX Contributor

A T.V. ad airing during the University of Oregon Ducks game on Saturday, September 12 will draw attention to the Clean Fuels Standard, which targets carbon pollution in Oregon. The Standard will essentially reduce the carbon pollution omitted from fuels by 10 percent over 10 years, starting in January.

The ad’s purpose is to draw the audience into a conversation regarding the clean air law and bring attention to the campaign targeting the Clean Fuels Standard. The new ad will bring forth the issue surrounding the oil industry and its lobbyists’ attempt to thwart the Clean Fuels Standard.

The message in the ad reveals that “oil and its paid lobbyists are addicted to unfettered profits and will not stop fighting the law, which opens the fuel market to competition.”

Thomas Wheatley, Campaign Director for Renew Oregon, explained that although oil companies are spending millions of dollars in attempt to thwart the clean air protection act in Oregon, he said that Oregonians are not feeding into the misinformation these lobbyists are providing.

In a statewide poll, 65 Oregonians voted in support of the Clean Fuels Standard.

“With these ads we’re letting the public know who is behind the effort to roll back this popular standard,” Wheatley said. “An industry that perhaps doesn’t have Oregon’s best interest in mind.”

The T.V. ad will run in Portland and Eugene, covering over 80 percent of the state.

A full transcript of the T.V. ad is provided below:

Transcript of Ad:
"They’ve tried it before. Out-of-state oil companies paid lobbyists big bucks to roll back Oregon’s clean fuel standards, and failed. But their lobbyists got addicted. Now they're are back again, taking big paychecks to try to roll back protections for our air and health. They’re desperate – pushing a new proposal that eliminates clean energy standards to protect oil profits. They know it will fail, but they’re addicted. Help Big Oil lobbyists kick their habit of peddling pollution for big profits."

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