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Koch’s AFP Starts Big Oil Bus Tour | Americans for Prosperity, the Koch Industries astroturf group, in conjunction with the oil front group American Energy Alliance (AEA) and the Institute for Energy Research, launched a nationwide Energy for America bus tour in Columbia, Missouri on Monday. “The Energy for America tour is all about reducing the burden of energy prices on families by encouraging domestic exploration and production of our vast energy resources” — i.e., oil, gas, and coal. Wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower are smeared as “companies like Solyndra.” The tour will continue through Nebraska, Montana, Colorado, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio, most of which are 2012 U.S. Senate battlegrounds.