Edward H. Murphy is a former senior executive and board member of the

American Petroleum Institute The American Petroleum Institute (API) is the largest U.S. trade association for the oil and natural gas industry. It claims to represent nearly 600 corporations involved in production, refinement, distribution, and many other aspects of the pet ...

Education

Edward Murphy obtained his BA in Economics from

Fordham University Fordham University () is a Private university, private Jesuit universities, Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the The Bronx, Bronx in which its origina ...

and his Ph.D from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

Career

Edward Murphy has been employed at the American Petroleum Institute in a variety of positions, beginning in 1975, and he retired from the Institute as Group Director for Industry Operations and Downstream in 2007. He has been outspoken in defense of the petroleum industry and appeared in the 2006 film, ''

Who Killed the Electric Car ''Who Killed the Electric Car?'' is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Chris Paine that explores the creation, limited commercialization and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the ...

'' as an interviewee, in which he stated: "I differ strongly with that. We did not kill the electric car. The petroleum industry did not kill the electric car, what killed the electric car was antiquated technology. It's a good example of something we should not repeat, it's something we need to avoid."

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