AOC Gets Exxon CEO To Admit Sabotaging Climate Change Provisions In Build Back Better

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Posted on Thu, Oct 28th, 2021 by Jason Easley
AOC Gets Exxon CEO To Admit Sabotaging Climate Change Provisions In Build Back Better


Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) got the CEO of ExxonMobile to admit that he talked to members of Congress about climate change provisions in the reconciliation bill.

Link to tweet

The CEO admitted that he has participated in calls regarding infrastructure and climate change legislation. It doesn’t take a detective to figure out who he has been lobbying to get rid of climate change provisions that would impact Big Oil in the legislation.

Joe Manchin is the chair of the Senate committee that conducts oversight on the fossil fuel industry. Sen. Manchin was also the member who demanded that climate change provisions that would have impacted the fossil fuel industry be removed from the bill.

Build Back Better looks like it is on the passage, but the process of getting there has made it clear that Big Oil still has its greasy hands in the back pockets of some members of Congress.

The White House wanted stronger climate change provisions. Almost all Democrats in Congress supported the climate change provisions, but Big Oil had Joe Manchin and probably a few others who they used to keep America from doing everything possible to protect the planet.

[Autumn]

1. I'm sure Manchin got plenty of money from Woods. Manchin should be removed as chair of

the committee that conducts oversight on the fossil fuel industry. He sold out our future.

[onecaliberal]

2. Unbelievable conflict that everyone thinks is okay.

[Celerity]

4. it is maddening that a person who makes millions off fossil fuels is allowed to self-deal as the

Chairman of the Senate Energy Committee.

It is about as blatant a case of a conflict of interest as you can get.

Sigh

[Mr. Evil]

3. If I knew how to scuba dive,

maybe I'd grab an underwater drill with a 4 inch hole saw attached and do some underwater repairs on his yacht.

[Midnight Writer]

5. Exxon CEO was just on CNBC this morning doing a victory lap. XOM is up 56% year-to-date.

He doesn't care about AOC, Katie Porter, Joe Biden, his customers, his country, his planet.

He is making money hand over fist and being praised as a business god.

Winning!