Taxpayers shell out as much as $4.8 billion a year to companies like BP, Chevron, Shell and ExxonMobil, pouring money into political campaigns and lobbyist rolling doors in our post-Citizens United world to effectively drown out dissent.
The money we give oil companies each year in just a drop in the barrel for them. But if we refunded it, we could jumpstart renewable energy projects, "green retrofit" millions of homes, and revolutionize the solar, wind and clean energy industry.
We're calling out lawmakers for helping pull off a century-long energy heist, and demanding they stop giving billionaire oil companies giant tax breaks!
Why is this important?
Over the past century, the federal government has pumped more than $470 billion into the gas and oil industry in the form of exorbitant, never-expiring tax breaks.
