Corporate Oil Industry Cartoon: Destination Earth – American Petroleum Institute (1956)

1956 www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com The American Petroleum Institute, commonly referred to as API, is the main US trade association for the oil and natural gas industry, representing about 400 corporations involved in production, refinement, distribution, and many other aspects of the petroleum industry. The association’s chief functions on behalf of the industry include advocacy and negotiation with governmental, legal, and regulatory agencies; research into economic, toxicological, and environmental effects; establishment and certification of industry standards; and education outreach. API both funds and conducts research related to many aspects of the petroleum industry. In addition to training industry workers and conducting seminars, workshops, and conferences on public policy, API develops and distributes materials and curricula for schoolchildren and educators. The association also maintains a website, Classroom Energy. In the second half of 2008, as the US presidential election neared, API began airing a series of television ads where spokeswoman Brooke Alexander encourages people to visit their new website, EnergyTomorrow.org API does not use their own name in the ads but does call themselves “The People of America’s Oil and Natural Gas Industry.” API has spent more than million annually for each the last five years (2005 to 2009) on lobbying, and .6 million in 2009. In API’s latest quarterly “Lobbying Report” submitted to the US Senate, the …