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You may want to add some information about all the subsidies the oil industry still gets, year on year, while the US government slashes subsidies for renewables: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuels-received-5-9-trillion-in-subsidies-in-2020-report-finds

The only way the oil industry can even remain viable, let alone competitive, is to prop it up with an unfair advantage in government money.

He's not dumb, he's just an asshole

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars He’s the CEO of Exxon! We know he’s an evil lying shit before he opens his mouth. Everything else is just embellishment.

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars guillotine time

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I agree with him people generating emissions should pay for it. Now let's see how many tons of CO2 does Exxon produce, from drilling oil, transporting crude, refining it, transporting it onwards to its final destination...

Where are the firing squads, when we need to put the fossil fuel moguls to death?

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars
It was said years ago, when climate change becomes undeniable, the deniers will blame the environmentalists. And that was a prediction not a joke.

Concerned about climate change?
You need to read @ajsadauskas 's 👆🏼 post (and some of the replies).

Besides denial, gaslighting (shoving responsibility on you), and greenwashing, the fossil fuel industry push to label climate activists as criminals.

Don't believe it?
They've been doing this for a while now, organised by such "institutions" as the Atlas network and ALEC.

https://newrepublic.com/article/175488/meet-shadowy-global-network-vilifying-climate-protesters

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The article was paywalled for me, so here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240228154718/https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

The pictures are blurred out, but then again you're better off not looking at this lying bastard's face.

the United States military is behind the curtain. All of their equipment requires silly amounts of fuel. They are the largest producer of greenhouse gases. They won't let the oil industry implode, and they will subsidize it as necessary. since nobody controls the military industrial complex enough to revolutionize their energy strategy in the trillions scale, nobody is driving this dumpster fire.

It's time to bring back the corporate death penalty.

Edit: IIRC Standard Oil, the predecessor of Exxon, was instrumental in abolishing the US corporate death penalty.

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Thank you for reading that (& summarizing) so I didn’t have to. I think my head would have exploded 🤯

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Where have we heard this before?

Look what you made me do!
God damn I'm glad the coppers will defend me you bitch.

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars he’s still salty about activist ruining his little party last December

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars The questions I have regarding this "interview": Why wasn't he asked after these statements since when Exxon knew about climate change and how Exxon acted on these internal information? Was it an interview or a PR piece for Exxon?

@fuck_cars @ajsadauskas kinda like excluding tobacco companies from the directing the fight against cancer

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars People??!

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars These companies are faced with a stark choice: either they continue down their current path of extracting fossil fuels, or they face extinction. The transition to renewable energy sources is too great a leap for them to make, given their existing profit margins and business models.

This is why nationalizing energy production is the only practical way forward.

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars it's like the herd immunity argument 🤢

@grantennis this may be relevant for you!

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These are the kind of people we need the international court of justice for.

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@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars A good start at cleaning up the environment. If you need to buy something from BP or Exxon-Mobil to use something, buy something else.

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars back sometime in the 80s a MAD Magazine issue had a bit called something like "What is Chutzpah?" with various helpful illustrations. The only one I remember was "pretty much anything you do if you're an executive of an oil company."

Ah, good times.

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars What penalty is appropriate for someone who dooms all of our descendants to a destroyed ecosystem, and then blames the very people who tried desperately to stop him for his own crimes?

Until truly, truly terrible things happen to these people, they will continue to escalate their attacks on all of our grandchildren, while mocking us, like they are doing in this quote.

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars It's all just capitalism doing exactly as it's supposed to do. Until we actually refuse to cooperate with capitalism-- refuse to work for capitalism, consume capitalism, defend capitalism-- we are all dooming humanity to be crushed to death by profit-seekers.
Base our interactions on humanity and its interconnected place in Life, *not* on Economy, which serves only the powerful, manipulative, murderous few.
Before you say it can't happen, try doing it.