Articles tagged with: Exxon
Big Oil-Big Mess
As BP's (British Petroleum) well continues to spew crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, other oil companies tell us that they can drill in the Arctic safely without despoiling the environment there. After twenty years the mess created by the EXXON Valdez spill, due to a drunken ship captain, is still not cleaned up. The industry's solution to their wanton ways is to set up a fund for such disasters, thus absolving them of their carelessness and ineptitude. Do you believe them? I certainly don't. They don't even know how to stop this current disaster and neither does anyone else.
Corn Ethanol, Zero Benefit, Not Zero Emissions
Charles E Grassley, R-Iowa, blocked the removal of a tariff of 54 cents per gallon on ethanol, most of which comes from Brazil. This protectionist move was for the benefit of his Iowa corn farmer constituents, but not the American public. Of all the materials from which ethanol can be made, corn is the worst. It costs $8.00 per gallon to make and uses tons of water to grow and process.It also requires fossil fuels to make and refine. It inflates the price of corn and corn by-products....
From the Banks of Denial
From the British Guardian publication web site comes the word that our esteemed EXXON Corporation , the company that dumped thousands of gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound in Alaska twenty years ago and never really cleaned it up, has been spending thousands of dollars spreading propaganda about climate change...