“Environmentalist” Democrat Invest $800K in Oil and Gas Companies

Last Friday Manhattan multimillionaire Aaron Woolf held a press conference calling for an end to subsidies for the oil and gas industry and for increased investment in renewable energy. As has been par for the course for Woolf, he can talk the talk but won’t walk the walk.

Woolf’s financial disclosure shows that he is more than happy to invest close to $1 million of his own money to subsidize the oil and gas industry while his investments in renewable energy are, shall we say, quite light.

Check out “environmentalist” Aaron’s $800K investments in the oil and gas industry, which include companies that drill offshore, employ fracking technology, and use tankers to move gas and crude oil by land and sea:

FirstEnergy Corp.

Chevron Corp

Devon Energy Corp

Borg Wanter Automotive Inc.

Enbridge Energy Parners

Genesis Energy LP

Teekay Corp

Teekay LNG Partners LP

Teekay Offshore Partners LP

Regency Energy Partners

Exterran Holdings Inc

Schlumberger

 And here is Woolf’s renewable energy investment:

Nextera Energy

(Aaron Woolf Personal Financial Disclosure, Clerk Of The U.S. House Of Representatives, 5/23/14)

 I guess this isn’t all that surprising given that the guy made a movie criticizing fast food companies while investing in those very same fast food companies.

NRCC Comment: “Aaron Woolf is a phony, plain and simple. He says he wants to raise the minimum wage, but he stiffs his own employees out of their own pay. He says he wants millionaires like him to pay their fair share, while getting hit with a warrant for $131K in back taxes. And now he attacks the oil and gas industry, yet profits from huge investments in crude, oil, natural gas, and fracking. The bottom line is that if Aaron Woolf says something, you can bet it’s a lie.”– NRCC Spokesman Ian Prior