Washington Update From the U.S. Oil & Gas Association: Doing More With A Lot Less

Oil & Gas Company CEOs Message to Industry Lobbyists Forever

[Note: Tim Stewart, President of the U.S. Oil and Gas Association, writes terrific updates for his members periodically. He gave me permission to share this with paid subscribers.]

Doing More with A lot Less Than the Other Side:

Rick Calhoon from Pruet Companies brought this article to my attention this morning. 

Oil, Gas Industry Sees Lobby Spending Dip In 2022

Now we need to contrast the amount the industry spent (roughly $125 million) to protect our livelihood with this:

The Greens and all their money  

I’ll let energy journalist Robert Bryce make the case that people and companies should really be dramatically increasing support for the industry – and of course the US Oil & Gas Association in particular:   

The overwhelming majority of the money involved in the energy and climate debate in the U.S. today is not on the side of traditional energy producers. Instead, the money, the media, and the momentum are clearly on the side of the NGO-corporate-industrial-climate complex. 

In 2021, the revenue for the top 25 NGOs in the anti-industry industry was more than four times the amount collected by NGOs that support the traditional energy sector. Those 25 anti-hydrocarbon/anti-nuclear NGOs had total revenue of about $4.5 billion which they used to fund campaigns on climate change, as well as efforts to promote renewable energy, stop the production of hydrocarbons, halt construction of new hydrocarbon infrastructure, prohibit the use of natural gas, oppose nuclear energy, and electrify everything, a move that would require massive increases in electricity production and the size of the electric grid.