He could have said nothing, just smiled and nodded, no?
Look if the President of the USA just told my suppliers we should learn to live without them I would probably be trying to soothe their fears too (its called business go figure). Maybe I am reading this wrong but he didn't bad mouth the Prez or the US or anything... he just said he disagreed with the Pres and that more likely the US is not going to go cold turkey on foreign oil.
Why in the heck would I boycott Chevron over that???
I wish the POTUS would, instead of running around sounding like Jerry Brown (1976) and Ariana Huffington.