Governments were interested in the taxes from gasoline and individual politicians liked the cash being handed out by the oilies
It would not suprise you to know that Heartland got started running the Tobacco campaign against restrictions on cigarettes. When lung cancer could no longer be ignored governments had to get off their fat asses and act, reluctantly but they did finally stir. Big tobacco was fined out of business but the bribed media already had its’ money for promoting poison. It is clear now that the US oil cartel was the hand behind the anti hydrogen vehicle campaign and they succeeded in killing it off. In terms of Global Warming the same course of action was followed by Big US Oil. I would guess that at least a 1000 journoshill were paid to spread confusion about climate change.
Again politicians didn’t want to muddy the waters and THEIR cash cut off so they said lots and did next to nothing
These writers were paid by the oilies as were think tanks like the Fraser Institute that produced erroneous reports. The bribed media thus had writers writing for free using free anti climate reports. Look to the scandal now unfolding in Montreal to see how it is done. Now the bribed media is declaring the climate crisis scare is over. It was all caused by 2800 scientists who were reporting their far flung work to the UN as to the changes that were occurring in nature. The US oil cartel spent hundreds of millions misleading 350 million people in North America about the coming climate storm.
Their tax revenues from gasoline and diesel will remain high and their envelopes of cash will keep coming from the oilies
The biggest beneficiary of these payments was and is the bribed media. When the E-Car came on the scene the campaign of confusion started right up again. The auto writer who had made so much hay killing the hydrogen car were reenergized in a campaign to kill the electric car [ Dave Booth, Jim Kenzie, Peter Gorrie, Michael Vong others. I think we can accept it on Eric’s say so that the E-Car is now dead. Again the politicians will heave a sigh of relief. The Globe and Mail [ as with the other media ] was engaged in all of these campaigns to kill people or impoverish them or both.
Eric Reguly takes special glee in telling us the E-Car is at an end having been part of the media industry that was paid big money by the US oil cartel to kill it. They succeeded in misinforming the public and accomplished what the oil cartel wanted. I am sure Phil Crawley and Eric will get their heads patted by the oilies. Every time there is a big event like the tar spill in Kalamazoo, the Keystone, the Gateway etc oil industry spin and propaganda takes over in the bribed media. Problems go unreported or are quickly buried. But I find it galling the these American bastards who run the oil industry
And lies and misinformation appears in the same order and format in each paper. Having bought the media the oilies have no fear of contradiction. So be forwarned, believe what you see in the newspapers and Maclean’s at your own peril. Now here is a funny one. The papers are desperate, they’ve spent all the money given to them by the oilies. With slipping circulation numbers the paper owners like John Honderich and Paul Godfrey are looking to make money on the net by charging for the same spin, lies and oilie propaganda. Nerve I tell you, it takes nerve to sell tainted stuff when they know it is tainted. And the tainted stuff gets sold because of a Government looking in the other direction.