Posted on 06/25/2016 10:10:23 AM PDT by rktman
Many oil companies succumb to the pressure from environmental activists and the media and join the fight against ‘climate change,’ or at least make motions to appear to do so. Not Exxon Mobil. In a previous column, I applauded CEO Rex Tillerson for refusing to climb on the climate change band wagon and for focusing on producing energy from fossil fuels—on which all of us depend—instead.
Tillerson and Exxon have not lost their integrity: they are steadfastly holding on to the principles they know their existence and successful value creation depend on, such as the right to liberty, and more specifically, freedom of speech. This time the attack comes, not from the environmentalists and the media, but from the government. In March, attorneys general (AG) of 20 U.S. states held a press conference where they vowed to hold oil companies accountable for their prior knowledge of ‘climate change.’
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I frequently drive by a huge Refinery on the south side of Detroit. If my kids are in the car I tell them that that Refinery is what enables all of the freedoms that we enjoy every day. I tell them that I find that to be one of the most beautiful sights in the entire country.
If a few key characters (professors, in particular) can be sued personally for their part in the fraud, then the others might have second thoughts about perpetuating this fraud.
Wow! I can not believe I am rooting for a big oil company.
I guess I value my freedom of speech that much.
Is Gore at risk?
Innocent by reason of insanity. NOT!
The corporatist elites from other business-banking interests outside of energy are using ‘climate change’ to their own benefit in cooperation with big government elites.
I have read how Sam Walton’s son Rob Walton decided to lead Wal-Mart forward as a company committed to ‘sustainability’ operating as if ‘man-made climate change’ was a reality.
In the last five years or so conservative shareholders have challenged the company on its position and the response of Wal-Mart’s board is that ‘sustainability’ make the company more profitable.
So I guess the big business elites are using ‘climate change’ to make more money, not to ‘save the planet’.
Its a sham and scam that goes beyond a simple “Left” versus “Right” paradigm, which is used to distract us all from what the corporatist elites are really doing.
We should be thankful that voters of the “Left” and “Right” put their divisions aside to defeat the corporatists in the UK Brexit referendum on Thursday.
Remember their old “Bringing home the oil” commercials?
This is not the old wild west days where a Rockefeller could control everything. There is a plethora of checks and balances. And yet the oil is not a curse but a blessing. Even when it helps Islamic peoples, because they have at least a pecuniary motive now to keep their conduct towards the world reasonable.
Travis, do you have that global warming for dummies chart? The earth, as the old earth geologists and creationists would have it, is billions of years old, has managed to prove hospitable to a plethora of life, has been visited by a special creature that can adapt to things from the South Pole to the tropical equator deserts, and we are here fretting over the direct measurements made over a period of a couple or so hundred years by thermometers.
Massachusetts must be purged from the union
Rex Tillerson. He could be in a romance novel! :)
Dammit! STOP REFERING TO PETROLEUM AS FOSSIL FUELS. It should be obvious to the lowest IQ they are nothing of the kind. The first step to fighting the libtards is to reclaim our own language.
My prediction: it will dissolve in a heap of self inflicted humiliation.
Semi-fossil fuels (there is still a debate about abiogenic oil).
The most sustainable thing might be to keep on keeping on, as a recent peak of geological earthly climate is coming to an end. If we are getting the globe to warm, it might be very handily at the start of what would otherwise be another deep ice age.
How many billions of barrels have been harvested over the last hundred years. It is silly to think it is decayed dinosaurs.
Yeah, I keep wondering just how many fossils had to die for us to live the way we do. Anybody ever hear of abiotics?
Only by his own stupidity.
The old elementary school science was that coal came from plants, oil from animals.
There is a lot of biomass that has been seen over the age of the earth. A lot of coal and oil is found in conjunction with it, this is one of the historical ways that coal and oil finds have been located. Not just dinosaurs but everything from insects to hippopotami.
The theme of sacrifice is woven into God’s creation and I would not bat an eyelash if it was found to be all biogenic. But certainly nothing makes other sources impossible.
Why is that? What’s wrong with big oil?
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