Chevron and ExxonMobil Announce  more than $8 Billion in Profits; Campaign Donations Flowing to Rep. Huizenga While West Michigan Families Feel the Pain at the Pump

Kalamazoo, MI  — Chevron just reported $2.8 billion in profits and ExxonMobil $4.9 billion in the first part of this year, as West Michigan drivers continue to feel the pain at the pump of nearly $5 per gallon gas. Thanks to Trump and Huizenga, the local tourism industry is also at risk. Rep. Huizenga, who has received $63,500 in contributions from Chevron and ExxonMobil over his lengthy political career, continues to rubber stamp all of Trump’s fossil fuel-friendly policies.

In 2024, Trump promised his Big Oil donors — including Chevron and ExxonMobil — 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.

“West Michigan tourism depends on drivers being able to afford filling up their gas tank to visit, but Rep. Huizenga is only focused on Big Oil companies filling up their bank accounts and his campaign coffers,” said Tom Lenard, Michigan State Director for Climate Power.  “Huizenga and Trump’s misplaced priorities are costing us way too much.”

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.

Huizenga also refuses to stand up to Trump and his order to keep the J.H. Campbell coal plant open, saddling Michigan families with higher utility bills and continuing to pollute our air and water, all to benefit billionaires in the fossil fuel industry.

Climate Power also launched a billboard campaign this morning in West Michigan to make clear that Donald Trump and Rep. Huizenga are directly to blame for West Michigan families’ out-of-control costs. The digital billboards will be running throughout the 4th Congressional District, including along US-31 in Ottawa County and I-196 outside of Grand Rapids.

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