Ahead of Expected Record Profits, Make Polluters Pay Campaign Says Big Oil Is Cashing In On War Again ⁠85%

By Newswire Editor⁠94%

7/21/2026, 3:01:58 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 29 faulty reasoning types, including Politically Left Leaning Bias, Negativity Bias, and Availability Heuristic, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 46.4% saturation with 179 hits. Analysis detected 1,551 faulty-reasoning hits from 386 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 76.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠85% (3,430 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 84.30% of the article peer group.

Oil majors are set to report second quarter earnings later this month that analysts expect to be the highest since 2022, when Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent crude prices soaring. 
Exxon Mobil is projected to report roughly $15.7 billion in adjusted earnings, and Chevron nearly $10 billion, both close to triple what they posted the previous quarter. 
A United Nations Development Programme policy brief released June 29th found the fallout from the conflict is still spreading well beyond the pump, pushing global fossil fuel subsidies past $1 trillion this year and threatening to push tens of millions more people into poverty as governments burn through fiscal buffers trying to keep energy affordable. 
As scientists grow more confident than ever that fossil fuel pollution is fueling extreme weather, Congress is moving to shield Big Oil from the fallout by blaming Canada instead. 
Sen. 
Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) introduced legislation yesterday targeting Canada over wildfire smoke drifting into U.S. cities that would freeze assets, revoke visas, and declare the Canadian ambassador "persona non grata" until the smoke clears. 
Against this backdrop, the Make Polluters Pay campaign released the following statement. 
Statement from Cassidy DiPaola, Communications Director for the Make Polluters Pay campaign: 
"Once again, war is proving very good for the oil business. 
While higher energy prices push millions of people closer to poverty and force governments to spend more than $1 trillion cushioning the blow, Exxon, Chevron and Shell are preparing to report their biggest profits in years. 
And when the consequences of fossil fuel dependence reach American communities, some lawmakers would rather find a new scapegoat than confront the industry at the center of the crisis. 
Sanctioning Canada over wildfire smoke will not change the hotter, drier conditions that decades of fossil fuel pollution have helped create. 
Congress does not have to accept a system where the public absorbs the risks and oil companies keep the rewards. 
The Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act would claw back these war profits and put real money back in people's pockets instead of executive bonuses. 
Every quarter like this is another reminder that the fastest way off this cycle is investing in clean energy that isn't held hostage by the next war." 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 46.4%Newswire editor: 9.4%Common Dreams: 7.9%Confirmation Bias46.4%This article: 7.0%Newswire editor: 1.4%Common Dreams: 0.9%Anchoring Bias7.0%This article: 22.0%Newswire editor: 6.2%Common Dreams: 5.0%Availability Heuristic22.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 1.1%Common Dreams: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.7%Common Dreams: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 1.6%Common Dreams: 1.6%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 4.7%Newswire editor: 20.1%Common Dreams: 17.4%Framing Effect4.7%This article: 9.3%Newswire editor: 1.4%Common Dreams: 1.0%Loss Aversion9.3%This article: 5.2%Newswire editor: 0.9%Common Dreams: 0.6%Status Quo Bias5.2%This article: 7.0%Newswire editor: 0.3%Common Dreams: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect7.0%This article: 14.0%Newswire editor: 1.7%Common Dreams: 1.6%Optimism Bias14.0%This article: 5.4%Newswire editor: 3.1%Common Dreams: 2.8%Pessimism Bias5.4%This article: 38.6%Newswire editor: 22.0%Common Dreams: 20.6%Negativity Bias38.6%This article: 7.5%Newswire editor: 1.0%Common Dreams: 0.9%Self-Serving Bias7.5%This article: 7.5%Newswire editor: 2.9%Common Dreams: 2.3%Fundamental Attribution Error7.5%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.1%Common Dreams: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 4.2%Common Dreams: 3.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 1.5%Common Dreams: 1.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 1.1%Common Dreams: 1.5%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.8%Common Dreams: 0.5%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.0%Common Dreams: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 7.8%Newswire editor: 1.7%Common Dreams: 1.5%Recency Bias7.8%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.6%Common Dreams: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.1%Common Dreams: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 7.5%Newswire editor: 5.2%Common Dreams: 6.2%Ad Hominem7.5%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.9%Common Dreams: 1.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 21.8%Newswire editor: 6.7%Common Dreams: 5.6%Appeal to Authority21.8%This article: 21.8%Newswire editor: 3.9%Common Dreams: 3.2%False Dilemma21.8%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 3.6%Common Dreams: 3.2%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.2%Common Dreams: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 10.7%Common Dreams: 8.9%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 8.5%Newswire editor: 0.3%Common Dreams: 0.3%Red Herring8.5%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 2.6%Common Dreams: 2.2%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 14.0%Newswire editor: 20.8%Common Dreams: 18.9%Appeal to Emotion14.0%This article: 6.5%Newswire editor: 4.7%Common Dreams: 3.7%Begging the Question6.5%This article: 17.1%Newswire editor: 5.4%Common Dreams: 4.3%Post Hoc (False Cause)17.1%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.2%Common Dreams: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 1.5%Common Dreams: 1.2%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.3%Common Dreams: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.5%Common Dreams: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 2.6%Common Dreams: 2.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.1%Common Dreams: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 2.8%Newswire editor: 2.1%Common Dreams: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)2.8%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.0%Common Dreams: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 5.2%Newswire editor: 0.1%Common Dreams: 0.1%Middle Ground5.2%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.1%Common Dreams: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.4%Common Dreams: 0.3%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Newswire editor: 0.4%Common Dreams: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 2.8%Newswire editor: 1.7%Common Dreams: 1.9%Unattributed Quote2.8%This article: 2.8%Newswire editor: 2.9%Common Dreams: 2.6%Quote-first Misdirection2.8%This article: 21.8%Newswire editor: 16.1%Common Dreams: 17.2%Biased Writer Voice21.8%This article: 16.8%Newswire editor: 11.9%Common Dreams: 8.6%Indoctrination16.8%This article: 45.6%Newswire editor: 19.4%Common Dreams: 17.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias45.6%This article: 8.5%Newswire editor: 0.7%Common Dreams: 0.5%Politically Right Leaning Bias8.5%This article: 15.8%Newswire editor: 1.2%Common Dreams: 1.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…15.8%

386 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers18%attributed speech318writer words
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Writer's voice • 18 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 55 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 29 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageBernie Moreno (R-Ohio) • 33 words • 100.0% coverageMake Polluters Pay campaign • 12 words • 0.0% coverageCassidy DiPaola • 12 words • 0.0% coverageCassidy DiPaola • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 36 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 29 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Cassidy DiPaola

48%flagged-word coverage
23 attributed words34% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%30.0%60.0%Politically Left Leaning B-55.3 ptsWriter: 55.3%Cassidy DiPaola: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote+47.8 ptsWriter: 0.0%Cassidy DiPaola: 47.8%47.8%Quote-first Misdirection+47.8 ptsWriter: 0.0%Cassidy DiPaola: 47.8%47.8%Biased Writer Voice-26.4 ptsWriter: 26.4%Cassidy DiPaola: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-20.4 ptsWriter: 20.4%Cassidy DiPaola: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -19.2 ptsWriter: 19.2%Cassidy DiPaola: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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