Oil Industry on a Propaganda Roll
What’s ExxonMobil’s motive for offering you to “test your knowledge about the oil and gas industry?” Is it:
a) Providing Americans the opportunity to educate themselves on the breadth of the industry. This includes the value it provides to society, weighed fairly and objectively against its negatives: its subsidies; dependence on protection from the U.S. military; oil spills; contribution to climate change, ocean acidification and loss of biodiversity; aggressive litigation against damage claimants; lobbying to move acts of civil disobedience from misdemeanors to felonies; the eco-devastation associated with drilling; the fouling of pristine wildernesses; methane leakages; and lung damage?
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b) Misleading Americans into believing that the industry is clean and sustainable, and that it’s operated to make life better and more convenient for everyone?
If you said a), you have what it takes to be loyal, jingoistic fool.
My wife made this prediction when the U.S. Senate failed to convict and remove Trump after he was impeached: “Now that he’s seen that he can commit major felonies in broad daylight with no repercussions–crimes that would have resulted in a life prison sentence had he been anybody else–he will feel empowered to ratchet up the crime spree with no limits whatsoever.”
Most people would be deeply ashamed to refer to all confident and powerful women with the same “nasty” adjective.
This, of course, is a reference to the fact that this wooden blend of religious fanaticism, racism, and complete ignorance on a broad range of important domestic and international matters–will soon be debating Kamala Harris, one of the most intelligent, learned, and powerfully articulate people on Earth.
Just received this:
We all act amazed when we learn that Trump has labeled the Black Lives Matter movement a “symbol of hate,” or that there are 70K children locked in cages at the southern border, or that Trump is unyielding in his push to preserve Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination. But actually, it would be more shocking if we weren’t encountering these heart-stopping displays of overt racism on a daily basis.
Sarah Cooper’s presence is proof that wonderful things can derive from horrific circumstances (a pandemic kept in place by a sociopathic president).
There are dozens of posts here on the 
Question: When’s the best time to roll back auto emission standards that protect public health and save people money?
Electric vehicle drivers who own their own homes and are plagued with frequent blackouts may want to look into this.
