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April 4, 2012

The Propaganda Campaigns of Big Oil

Joel Connelly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer


Seattle PI

If you are a professional model well turned out in a pants suit, Big Oil may have a job for you performing in commercials running nonstop on Cable TV:  Legs are a tool when it comes to marketing lies. 

The petroleum industry, its trade groups and secretive front groups underwritten by oil men have taken to the airwaves to tout a drill-baby-drill energy "strategy" and trash the Obama administration for daring to encourage new energy technologies.

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