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Bernie Sanders' Public Statements on Issue: Oil and Gas

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07/31/2023 NEWS: Sanders, Markey, Merkley, and Warren Send Letter to Attorney General Urging DOJ to Bring Lawsuits Against the Fossil Fuel Industry
11/01/2022 Tweet - "Oil Profits So Far This Year Exxon:⬆️203% to $43 billion Chevron:⬆️175% to $29 billion BP:⬆️161% to $22.8 billion Shell:⬆️133% to $30 billion Big Oil is using the war in Ukraine as an excuse to make obscene profits by jacking up gas prices. Yes. We need a windfall profits tax."
10/27/2022 Tweet - "Corporate greed is Shell making a record $21 billion in profits over the last 2 quarters and spending $26 billion on stock buybacks and dividends this year to enrich its wealthy stockholders while working class Americans struggle to pay $4, $5, $6 for a gallon of gas."
10/16/2022 Tweet - "The Saudi Arabian regime treats women as third-class citizens, tortures civilians, and now is siding with Putin in the war against Ukraine. Yes, we must pull US troops out of Saudi Arabia, stop selling them weapons, and end its price-fixing oil cartel."
10/05/2022 Tweet - "OPEC's decision to cutback on production is a blatant attempt to increase gas prices at the pump that cannot stand. We must end OPEC's illegal price-fixing cartel, eliminate military assistance to Saudi Arabia, and move aggressively to renewable energy."
09/26/2022 Tweet - "It may be a radical idea to some of my Senate colleagues & in the editorial rooms of newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch & Jeff Bezos, but I do believe the future of the planet is more important than the short term profits of the fossil fuel industry. Defeat the Big Oil side deal."
09/11/2022 Tweet - "I'm once again asking my colleagues in the Senate to look at what is happening around the world and find the courage to stand up to the fossil fuel industry."
09/08/2022 Tweet - "Combating climate change is more important than fossil fuel profits. I will not vote for any bill that makes it easier for Big Oil to destroy the planet and that includes approving the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The Continuing Resolution must not be held hostage by Big Oil."
08/08/2022 Tweet - "2nd Quarter Profits Exxon: $17.9 billion - highest ever Chevron: $11.62 billion - highest ever Shell: $11.5 billion - highest ever BP: $8.5 billion - highest in 14 years The UN Secretary General is right: This "grotesque greed" is destroying the planet and punishing the poor."
07/02/2022 Tweet - "President Biden is right: The big oil companies must stop profiteering and bring down gas prices. But we need more than a tweet. It's time for the President to demand that Congress pass a windfall profits tax on Big Oil and use the revenue to provide rebates to consumers NOW!"
07/01/2022 Tweet - "Average Price of a Gallon of Gas: U.S.: $4.84 France: $8.11 Germany: $7.46 South Korea: $6.33 South Africa: $5.61 India: $4.99 The skyrocketing price of gas is not just an American problem. The greed of Big Oil CEOs is an international problem. We need a windfall profits tax."
06/25/2022 Tweet - "Big Oil's 1st Quarter Profit in 2022: $35 billion Average Price of Gas today: $4.91 Big Oil's 1st Quarter Profit in 2019: $13.8 billion Average Gas Price: $2.69 Big Oil's 1st Quarter Profit in 2015: $13.1 billion Average Gas Price: $2.41 Yes. We need a windfall profits tax."
06/15/2022 Tweet - "President Biden is absolutely right. The big oil companies are making obscene profits gouging working Americans at an unprecedented level. Democrats in Congress should support the president's fight against their greed and enact a windfall profits tax NOW."
05/24/2022 Letter to Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House - Whitehouse, Khanna, Colleagues Urge Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer to Bring Big Oil Windfall Profit Tax to the Floor
01/07/2022 Letter to Richard Glick, Chairman Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - Consumer Protection from Rising Gas, Home Heating, and Energy Costs
12/23/2021 Letter to Hon. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith Push HHS to Help Protect Families This Winter During Energy Crisis
08/23/2021 Letter to Jaime A. Pinkham, Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Works - House and Senate Lawmakers Call on Biden Administration to Immediately Suspend Clean Water Act Permit for Line 3 Pipeline
07/27/2021 Letter to Hon. Debra Haaland, Secretary of the Interior - Heinrich, Lowenthal Lead Bicameral Letter Urging Interior Department To Reverse Course On Massive Arctic Drilling Project
04/15/2021 Markey Joins Sanders, Omar and Colleagues to Introduce the End Polluter Welfare Act
04/15/2021 NEWS: Sanders, Omar and Colleagues Introduce the End Polluter Welfare Act
04/15/2021 Van Hollen Joins Sanders, Omar, and Colleagues in Introducing the End Polluter Welfare Act
04/14/2021 Van Hollen Joins Merkley, Huffman to Get the Federal Government out Of the Fossil Fuel Business
01/15/2021 Letter to President-Elect Biden - Menendez, Booker Call for Strengthened Regulations of Methane Emissions from Oil, Natural Gas Production
01/15/2021 Letter to President-Elect to Joe Biden - Feinstein, Heinrich, Colleagues Call for Strengthened Regulations of Methane Emissions from Oil, Natural Gas Production
12/16/2020 Letter to the Hon. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Department of the Interior - Bennet Joins Letter Opposing Last-Minute Oil and Gas Lease Sale & Seismic Exploration in Arctic Refuge
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