Big Oil Corporations Announce Billions in Profits; Campaign Donations Flowing to Mike Rogers While Michiganders Feel the Pain at the Pump

Lansing, MI  — Big Oil Corporations just reported massive profits in the first part of this year, as Michiganders continue to feel the pain at the pump from Trump’s war of choice. Senate candidate and former GOP Congressman Mike Rogers, who has received nearly $700,000 in contributions from corporations like Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and Occidental Petroleum over his lengthy political career, promises to continue rubber-stamping all of Trump’s fossil fuel-friendly policies. Just last August, a Texas Oil Tycoon even dumped $5 million into a super PAC supporting Rogers.

In 2024, Trump promised his Big Oil donors — including Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and Occidental Petroleum — that he would enact policies helpful to their bottom line as he asked for $1 billion in campaign donations. Trump’s war of choice in Iran, attacks on clean energy investments, and decimation of pollution protections have all been a boon to Big Oil, making way for massive windfalls for his wealthy oil supporters. Oil and gas companies could reap a $60 billion windfall from the “Trump Oil Shock,” which generated more than $30 million in profits for Big Oil every hour during the first month of the war.

“​​There’s a reason Texas Oil Tycoons and Big Oil companies are bankrolling Mike Rogers — he helps them make the profits, while working Michiganders pay the bill,” said Tom Lenard, Michigan State Director for Climate Power.  “We just can’t afford career politician Mike Rogers in the U.S. Senate.”

Gas prices have topped $4 per gallon nationally, with the average American household expected to pay $740 more in gas this year. Here in Michigan, gas prices have increased by more than a dollar since the start of the war including a 90 cent jump just this week.

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