US oil lobby launches eight-figure ad blitz amid record fossil fuel extraction

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Sheeple@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Should be handled like cigarette ads where an equal amount has to be donated to repair damage

I think the damage done in this case is a little bit more profound.

Get out of here with your reasonable suggestions for real life problems.

Instead the state should raise taxes on poor people and give the money to the oil companies, cause freedom or something.

Hegar@kbin.social · 14 pts · 2y

Think of how much good you could do with 8 figures, if it wasn't being spent to lie about being good.

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The ad blitz – which uses images of farm vehicles, footballers under floodlights and concert goers holding phones lit up

So they spent tens of millions of dollars on stock footage. I've never seen this ad and I know exactly what it's going to look like.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The spending is mostly on putting it in front of people

Clearly. Unlike that crypto exchange they didn't even bother springing for Matt Damon

I'm guessing from your statement that it sounds like a horrible investment. Unless it's to launder money....

Or their brother-in-law runs the ad agency

Leviathan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

About to see a whole mess of dudes wearing wraparound sunglasses in their pickup trucks telling us about how manly, free and American™ loving oil is.

lntl@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

Fuck yeah