Going against their own 2008 pledge to cut funds to groups which "divert attention" to progressive energy sources, ExxonMobile continues to shell out the dollars.

Lobbying groups The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) and The Heritage Foundation received more than $125,000 in 2008. Policy and communications director for the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Bob Ward, claim the two lobbying groups have both published "misleading and inaccurate information about climate change."

In a web memo published in December by the Heritage Foundation they claim, "Growing scientific evidence casts doubt on whether global warming constitutes a threat, including the fact that 2008 is about to go into the books as a cooler year than 2007". Scientists unassociated with Exxon, believe the changes are due to natural changes, having nothing to do with the long term global warming trends.

The NCPA web site states, "NCPA scholars believe that while the causes and consequences of the earth's current warming trend is [sic] still unknown, the cost of actions to substantially reduce CO2 emissions would be quite high and result in economic decline, accelerated environmental destruction, and do little or nothing to prevent global warming regardless of its cause."

No wonder gas is so expensive. Big oil has to shell out big bucks to manipulate the public about the facts. Just remember, every time you fill your tank, you're practically financing the lobbyist.