After the pres­i­den­tial debate last night, most high pro­file chan­nels ran ads from oil com­pa­nies (ABC had Chevron, CBS had Exxon, and CNN had the coal lob­by). Notic­ing that there’s some­thing a bit off, the We Cam­paign1 is flag­ging ABC to recon­sid­er their actions for refus­ing to run the Repow­er Amer­i­ca ad (below) last week2.

ABC recent­ly refused to run our Repow­er Amer­i­ca ad, even though they run ads from oil com­pa­nies that mis­lead the Amer­i­can peo­ple about the role fos­sil fuels play in the cli­mate cri­sis.

They recent­ly start­ed a peti­tion and sent out a mes­sage ear­li­er this after­noon:

Our Repow­er Amer­i­ca ad has a clear and sim­ple message—that mas­sive spend­ing by oil and coal com­pa­nies on adver­tis­ing is a key rea­son our nation has­n’t switched to clean and renew­able sources for our ener­gy.

The peti­tion is to “send a mes­sage to ABC and tell them to air the Repow­er Amer­i­ca ad this Fri­day on 20/20.” The We Cam­paign is work­ing on get­ting 100,000 pub­lic com­ments to ABC before 20/20’s next air­ing. They are cur­rent­ly (at the time of this post­ing) near 25,000 mark.

You can get more info, sign the peti­tion, view the ad, etc. by going to: wecansolveit.org/ABC

PS. Here’s the script from the ad:

The solu­tion to our cli­mate cri­sis seems sim­ple.
Repow­er Amer­i­ca with wind and solar.
End our depen­dence on for­eign oil. A stronger econ­o­my.
So why are we still stuck with dirty and expen­sive ener­gy?
Because big oil spends hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars to block clean ener­gy.
Lob­by­ists, ads, even scan­dals.
All to increase their prof­its, while Amer­i­ca suf­fers.
Break­ing big oil’s lock on our gov­ern­ment …
Now that’s change.
We’re the Amer­i­can peo­ple and we approve this mes­sage.

1. The We Cam­paign is a project of The Alliance for Cli­mate Protection—a non­prof­it, non­par­ti­san effort found­ed by Nobel lau­re­ate and for­mer Vice Pres­i­dent Al Gore. The goal of the Alliance is to build a move­ment that cre­ates the polit­i­cal will to solve the cli­mate crisis—in part through repow­er­ing Amer­i­ca with 100 per­cent of its elec­tric­i­ty from clean ener­gy sources with­in 10 years. Our econ­o­my, nation­al secu­ri­ty, and cli­mate can’t afford to wait. [↩]
2. The ad that takes on the same oil and coal lob­by. [↩]