The American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry’s pet dog in Washington D.C., was throughly inspired by the success of Big Pharma and Insurance companies in popularizing lies about healthcare and decided to organize it’s own set of astroturfing events throughuot the nation. ‘Energy-Citizens’ is what they called them and they encouraged all of their lsits to run and attend. The first of these events happened in Houston a couple of days ago and Public Citizen organizers went to check it out. See for yourself how ’spontaneous’ and ‘grassrootsy’ these events were:

Not only was the event exclusive to oil company employees, but when our friends managed to sneak in with a camera, they revealed that most people in there had no idea or were highly misinformed about what they were brought there for:

In a summer rife with industry scandals and lies, we must make sure that our government doesn’t balk. Here is the list of other scheduled ‘Energy Citizen’ events. If you see one in your hometown, why don’t you pay them a visit?