If you watch American TV media, the relentless oil, coal and gas ads never stop.  The fossil fuel industries advertise on TV at least 12 hours a day. Most of the ads come during national news broadcasts from the American Petroleum Industry and during prime time viewing. They air on MSNBC and NBC very heavily; but also on CNN and other cable news channels.  They air literally 8-10 times an hour on any given major network 1/2 hour news broadcast.  It’s a veritable barrage of oil and fossil fuel propaganda; yet the stories of peak oil are nowhere to be found. (Below is a parody of these ads).  The U.S. corporate news media is blaming all gas prices on “unrest” in Libya.  None of these “news broadcasters” mention peak oil or the fact that all the easy to get oil is gone.

Where are the environmental equal-time ads? They don’t exist. No environmental group advertises on U.S. TV media. No wonder people think there’s nothing wrong with using oil and gas until it all runs out and we choke to death on the fumes and pollution and CO2 permanently alters the climate. With this kind of barrage, coinciding with political push backs against the EPA, we are in a lot of environmental trouble this year. Instead of making progress environmentally under President Obama, we seem to be fighting for every little concession we get on clean air and clean water. To say nothing of climate change.

Fossil fuels proponents are even claiming that hydraulic fracturing does not harm water supplies, which is provably false. This statement was made on E&E TV today, by Bruce Vincent, chairman of the Independent Petroleum Association of America and President of Swift Energy. Obviously, he’s going to lie about the pollution from what his interests do, because that is how American corporations operate these days.

“I’m not concerned about the contamination of fresh water resources caused by hydraulic fracturing, because that’s never occurred. But, as an industry, we need to be sure that we can continue to hydraulically fracture wells in a safe way and in an environmentally friendly way.”

How can progress be made on anything if energy industry leaders continue to lie about the situation? He claims there isn’t even a problem and thousands of homeowners and the EPA would disagree with that.

Nothing will happen this year on climate change mitigation in the U.S. government, and that may be true next year too. The U.S. is punting this again and shifting blaime;  using the old “problems” of India and China.  These are old excuses but American politicians keep recycling them.   At this rate, there will be no climate change action taken by the U.S. ever (until the situation is dire) because no other country can ever live up to the demands of our politicians, prior to our taking action on it ourselves.

The cards are actually laid out openly in this article from [...]