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5 December 06

Big Oil Has Big Bucks for Image War

The PR blog Potomac Flacks reports that the American Petroleum Institute (API) is planning a $100-million "image and education effort" to counteract the change in policy direction that the fossil industry (sorry, fossil fuel industry) acticipates from the new Democratically dominated Congress.

Quoting a very short piece in the National Journal, PFlacks reports that the campaign "much of which will be coordinated by the PR firm Edelman, will include expensive television, radio, and print ads, tours of oil patch facilities for lawmakers and opinion elites, and financial contributions to sympathetic think tanks and industry-friendly organizations.


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