From: The Story of Stuff Project While Americans were reckoning with sky-high gas prices at the pump last year, ExxonMobil reported on Tuesday that it made $56 billion in profits in 2022. That’s the most a Western oil company has …
Category: Fossil Fuels
If You’re Challenging Anything Other Than Satan, You Probably Are on a List
A reader sent me this meme, to which I reply: I hear you, but being on a list is not a crime. I’m happy to live in a country where being found guilty of a crime by a jury of …
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Big Oil, Big Tobacco
Most people find it hard to believe that they live among folks who are so unprincipled that they are willing to inflict great harm on others, simply because they get fabulously rich whatever process is at stake, whether that’s selling …
Chevron’s New Branding Campaign
Rebranding a company is an enterprise I’ve undertaken dozens, probably hundreds of times. The game here, of course, is to align the client’s organization with something that already exists in customers’ minds. Here we see Chevron calling itself the “human …
It’s Easy to Forget How Catastrophic Trump Was for the Environment
2GreenEnergy supporter Cameron Atwood writes: From a few years back… November 8 2016, as Trump won the Electoral College, the World Meteorological Organization delivered data to the International Conference on Climate Change: – The [prior] five years – 2011 through …
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Halloween Costumes Speak Truth
Not sure how many readers have seen these faux Halloween costumes where kids can go door-to-door dressed as the most destructive and repulsive characters in American society, e.g., Marjorie Taylor Greene. Here’s ExxonMobil CEO “climate con artist” Darren Woods, whose …
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Electrification–A Struggle of 100 Years and Counting
The mobilization of Big Oil, and its impact on the political scene in the early part of the 20th Century, resulted in the destruction of the enormous network of electricity-based public transportation that stood in place at the time. Now, …
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Big Oil Hates Your Kids
Here’s a faux advertisement for Chevron. It’s not unlike “Exxon Hates Your Kids,” but it’s longer and better.
Celebrating the Defeat of a Bill that Would Have Accelerated the Consumption of Fossil Fuels
Dozens of grassroots environmental groups exerted enough pressure in Congress such that West Virginia senator Joe Manchin was forced to abandon his bill that would have propped up Big Oil for another decade or so. From this: Manchin’s bill would …
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Making It Impossible to Direct the U.S. Economy Away from Fossil Fuels
The Texas fossil fuel companies have been effective in getting the state legislature to pass a law that bans state and local government entities from doing businesses with companies that have environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) focus, or are …
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