Greenwashing at its Finest
Fans of professional golf many know that this week’s tour event is the Valero Texas Open, sponsored by the 8th largest U.S. oil company with revenues of $108 billion.
This itself would be completely unremarkable were it not for the outrageous attempts at greenwashing the company makes in its television advertising. Apparently, Valero, or at least its ad agency, thinks that its viewers are stupid enough to believe that the company is making an honest effort to replace crude with cooking oil waste that was used to fry potatoes, onion rings, chicken, and the like.
Sure! We consume more than 5 billion gallons of crude per day, and we’re going to make a significant reduction in that by collecting and refining vegetable oil from fast food restaurants.
No one knows exactly where U.S. politics is headed in terms of banning abortion and the demolition of women’s rights more generally, but it seems that what Idaho (“The Alabama of the Pacific Northwest”) is doing is going to get shot down in court.
Let’s change the “will” here to “would,” or its past tense form, “would have.”
I told my son when he was younger that, since he and I are both straight white males born into affluent families, that it may be difficult for us to appreciate the hardships put upon people of minority skin color, religion, or sexual orientation.
“The car drove us around downtown London, which is one of the most challenging driving environments imaginable, and it was a bit surreal to be in the car as it dodged all the traffic,” Gates said.
Isn’t it time to get this back in the news?
The meme here serves as a reminder that most of the drama in our society is fabricated.
As shown below, Fox News chose to interview fraudster Rod Blagojevich, who spent eight years in prison after being found guilty on 17 counts of wire fraud and extortion, for trying to sell a vacant senate seat to the highest bidder, and demanding a kickback from a children’s hospital.
My deeply Republican mom and I were talking about the indictment last night, and she believes that it “will just fall apart.”
Trump was indicted, not indicated, but why hold him accountable for poor word use rather than attempting to overthrow the U.S. government?
