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The homepage of the website gave no indication that Energy Citizens is a creation of the oil industry. It's a conversation with the American people. When he started to read his lines, he veered off-script and began to denounce the "lies and influence peddling" of the oil industry and he was quickly shown the door.

The incident gave environmental groups advance knowledge of the industry's campaign, allowing the environmental advocacy group PolluterWatch to launch a spoof ad mocking the campaign at almost exactly the same time the industry's ad campaign started. The fake ads feature actors posing as oil industry executives and saying things like, "I vote Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter.

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Since the mids, climate activists have focused on yanking that social license away. Now, the oil industry is pouring resources into an effort to retain it. The USE IT Act would increase federal support both for capturing carbon from the atmosphere and for using that carbon to make fossil-fuel extraction more efficient.

The campaign, which features images of happy young people in the woods, accompanied a systematic change in how API described itself. Its leaders now say it represents the natural gas and oil industry—with a big emphasis on the natural.

But despite this new push, API does not support a carbon tax or any other policy that would reduce fossil-fuel use.

And at the state level, few climate-friendly efforts have escaped the attention of API or the broader oil industry. In 11 states, the industry has fought new laws that encourage electric-car purchases.

In five states, it has campaigned against extending the life of nuclear plants, which generate more zero-carbon electricity in the United States than any other technology. And across the Northeast, it has tried to stop the construction of transmission lines that would import excess hydroelectric power from Quebec. Of course, there are practical reasons for API to oppose such climate policy.

Gasoline and other oil-derived products generate 92 percent of the energy used to transport Americans and their goods—whether on the highway, on the water, or in the air, according to the Energy Information Administration. Natural gas generates more than a third of American electricity , and plunging prices mean that its share is rapidly growing.