Exclusive: Oil Industry Forms New Astroturf Group To Manipulate 2012 Republican Primary In Iowa

As the Republican presidential candidates tour Iowa hoping to lock up the 2012 nomination, they will hear an assortment of questions on energy policy. Some of them, ThinkProgress has learned, will be planted by the oil and natural gas lobby to steer the candidates toward pro-Big Oil policies. A recent campaign stop by Rick Santorum [...]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/06/25/252591/oil-industry-astroturfing-2012/

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