This post is very true to state that oil companies have much influence in politics, after reading her post i remembered reading a different article on the Huffingtonpost titled "Oil And Gas Industry Exerts Outsized Political Influence In Colorado: Report" about how the oil and gas industry was spending money on state elections, campaigns, and legislative lobbying in in republican and democratic parties. Over the last five years oil and gas companies spent close to a million dollars annually, and also gave roughly $800,000 to help elect Republican and Democratic candidates. The article finishes by stating fossil fuel companies spent $347 million lobbying Congress. That is a lot of political influence if you ask me. Though the article that i read is not solely based on her post, I due believe that her issue is important. America is a nation that is beautiful and needs to step up to the issue more on pollution. America is making some improvements in low fuel emission vehicles. which help slightly with cutting out carbon emissions but as long as Americans need gas and fossil fuel companies keep getting paid and stay powerful it will be a long time before things like this get taken care of...