Excerpt from the New York Times:
Oil Industry Backs Protests of Emissions Bill
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS and JAD MOUAWAD
Published: August 18, 2009
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The event on Tuesday was organized by a group called Energy Citizens, which is backed by the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry’s main trade group. Many of the people attending the demonstration were employees of oil companies who work in Houston and were bused from their workplaces.
This was the first of a series of about 20 rallies planned for Southern and oil-producing states to organize resistance to proposed legislation that would set a limit on emissions of heat-trapping gases, requiring many companies to buy emission permits. Participants described the system as an energy tax that would undermine the economy of Houston, the nation’s energy capital. …
Read the whole article at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/business/energy-environment/19climate.html?scp=1&sq=texas%20oil%20rally&st=cse
