not. hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on lobbying and advertising. climate activist richard wiles, has seen just how well this strategy has worked over the past decades. a face succeeded with money, right? i mean, the number of ads that they run is just mind blowing. they started in the late eighty's early ninety's and have continued for the past 30 years, bombarding the public with either the notion that climate change is on certain that it may not happen now. it won't be that bad. we can't survive without oil and gas. if we don't have oil and gas, you won't be able to drive a car. you won't be able to heat your home, both of which are patently untrue, obviously. but, but you know, with enough money and enough advertising, you can convince people just about anything and that's what they've done. why did they do that? the other thing probably the worst thing is that they were deliberately manipulating facts to protect their profits. and they did not want to be blame. they did not want to be regulated. they did not want to be controlled. we asked the american petroleum institute, t