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Anti-renewables groups still spending big on Meta – and met with near silence by green energy industry (reneweconomy.com.au)
submitted 5 days ago by to c/australia@aussie.zone
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A total of 12 fossil fuel and anti-renewables groups spent $1.2 million on Meta ads specifically mentioning energy.

In response just six renewable energy companies and one lobby group put ads on Meta platforms, but they spent just 1 per cent of the amount that the 12 kicked in over the same period.

There's tables in the article showing who is spending what on Facebook ads before the Vic and NSW state elections - Australian Energy Producers, Shell, and Minerals Council of Australia (including their astroturfing subsidiary Hands Off Our Fuel) are the biggest spenders.

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[–] 2 points 4 days ago

They don't have a choice do they? They want more money. They make more money if they subvert democracy with a bunch of bullshit deflections and divisiveness. The sooner we remove our dependency on fossil fuels, the sooner we get back to normal politics. But the faster we move the more they are going to spend resisting.

Weirdly the thing that will finish it all is going to be the free market. The world is increasingly moving to cheaper, better products regardless of environmental legislation or fossil fuel lobbying. When the technology and manufacturing is there this stuff flips. The law of the jungle can be cruel.

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