Carlos Elías Franco Ruíz
During last presidential elections in the USA, renewable energies were
on the trend and both Obama and McCain were supporting turning the US
into a green country. But this year, with Obama still being in favour of
a green country, it doesn’t seem to be beneficial for oil, coal and gas
extracting and commercializing companies. These companies are being
replaced, slowly though, by new energy sources, so, they are now
beginning to turn their support for Romney, by financing his campaign,
or at least others are just trying to force Obama to adopt a friendlier
position towards fossil fuels. They are also trying to influence in
public opinion in the country, by publishing adds on newspapers, TV and
even internet against the president, mainly accusing his policies of
causing the prices of fuels to rise, especially those of the petrol and
gas, this last one has nearly doubled during Obama administration.
Another argument used is that high prices affect the families’ economy
and, also hurts the national economy by weakening the enterprises’
economic capacity. The problem is that fossil fuel energy supporters and
companies’ funds is much bigger than that of green energy supporters,
thus their propaganda capacity and reach is much wider too. Obama’s
policies have been criticized, mainly by opposers to him and to green
energies. Amongst those policies there are charging more taxes on fossil
fuels, lowering the building process of a pipeline coming from Canada
and new clean air policies. The advertisements are especially targeted
to some swing states, also classical fuel producers, such as Ohio,
Virginia, Colorado and Pennsylvania
Green energy supporters and NGO’s are trying to make adds in support of Obama, his regime and his policies as a way of convincing more people to support these policies and to turn green. “There is no way we can compete with some of the richest companies in the history of the world”, declared Michael Brune, director of serra Verde, one of the most popular pro-green energy NGO’s in the USA. Some of the companies in question are the multinationals Chevron and Texaco, strong Obama opposers. This may be a strong factor against Obama, and he has to keep these enterprises satisfied if we doesn’t want this to affect his campaign, because the reach of this propaganda is very huge, so it may affect in the final decision of the voters. And probably Romney knows how to take advantage of this rivalry.
Green energy supporters and NGO’s are trying to make adds in support of Obama, his regime and his policies as a way of convincing more people to support these policies and to turn green. “There is no way we can compete with some of the richest companies in the history of the world”, declared Michael Brune, director of serra Verde, one of the most popular pro-green energy NGO’s in the USA. Some of the companies in question are the multinationals Chevron and Texaco, strong Obama opposers. This may be a strong factor against Obama, and he has to keep these enterprises satisfied if we doesn’t want this to affect his campaign, because the reach of this propaganda is very huge, so it may affect in the final decision of the voters. And probably Romney knows how to take advantage of this rivalry.
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