When I would see pictures of back in the 1970s & 80s huge gas stations in the Soviet Union and the Middle East, I would think they were just excesses of the government regimes. No one wanted those. Now, in the age of Buc-ees and the like, it's obvious what the market demands. Perhaps they were just ahead of the times in catering to the consuming masses.
California towns are banning new gas stations. Big Oil is paying attention. #BigOil#HydrocarbonRetail
If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.
So.
The CEO of ExxonMobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."
Who's the most influential voice on climate change? Who's to blame for inaction on climate change?
According to the CEO of ExxonMobil, it's environmental activists.
No, really:
"Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."
Oh, and the CEO of ExxonMobil also apparently thinks consumers are to blame for climate inaction:
"Today we have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that."
Gets better.
He thinks unnamed 'people who generate emissions' should pay for it. (Rather than, say, major transnational oil companies.)
"People who are generating the emissions need to be aware of [it] and pay the price. That’s ultimately how you solve the problem."
So, remind me again. Who knew about climate change before most of the public?
"Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue... This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation."
And just who, exactly, stood in the way reducing emissions all these years?
"ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents...
"The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the company announced in 2015. They add to a slew of documents that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal lawsuits against big oil."
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Aber ja, schnell noch mal in den Urlaub fliegen und weiter machen wie bisher, man gönnt sich ja sonst nichts und hatte sich noch sooo viel vorgenommen.
Man könnte diese Zeit und Energie auch in Protestmaßnahmen, Änderung des eigenen Lebensstils und anderes stecken, zumindest im Interesse unserer Kinder, aber was weiß ich denn schon . . . #Klimakollaps#Artensterben
"#Shell’s Massive #CarbonCapture Plant Is Emitting More Than It’s Capturing
A new Global Witness report found that it has the same carbon footprint per year as 1.2 million gas-powered cars."
"It's economically illiterate, it's environmentally irresponsible and it's politically jejune."
#Starmer is scared of a transphobic puppet for #BigOil. It’s a sad day.
The reality is £28 billion needs to be the starting point of #Labour Green Investment. Not spending is not an option when it’s about survival - environmentally and for business.
I know, I needed to edit this post for adhering better to the #PascalCase convention.
Also, it fit in nicely with my re-boost today of the #BigOil fiasco background, inspired by the new allegations that even 👉#Shell's #CarbonCapture plant might be a complete fraud, as it possibly even emits way more #GreenhouseGases than it captures!👈
@dromografos Only #ClimateCriminals would boast about #fossilfuels production when our planetary home is burning and flooding. Shame on every shareholder of #Exxon and #Chevron and every govt subsidizing these criminals.
Unternehmen wie Exxon, Blackrock, Deutsche Bank, Gazprom, BP, TotalEnergies, RWE und andere zerstören für den schnellen Profit durch Finanzierung und Durchführung fossiler Projekte wissentlich unsere Lebensgrundlage.