Rep. Joe Barton and two other leading House lawmakers are suffering from a potentially lethal addiction, according to a renewable energy advocacy group.

Don’t worry, though. The organization, Operation Free, says it has the perfect prescription: the Environmental Protection Agency.

In a web campaign designed to go viral, the group says Barton, R-Texas, and two other House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have an “oil addiction disorder.” The Jib-Jab-esque video shows Barton, panel chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., and John Shimkus, R-Ill., guzzling crude out of barrels wielded by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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