The Program Big Oil's PR Firm Uses to 'Convert Average Citizens'

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4. Sometimes environmentalists are zealots, oblivious to the impact their agenda has on ordinary people

I like to have reasonably priced gas for my car and I like to heat my home with reasonably priced natural gas. Many environmentalists want the opposite - expensive fuel that would it a hardship for many people to do those things. We have the opportunity to bring jobs back to the US with our big advantage in energy costs. Again, the environmentalist agenda ignores that. BTW, they can be just as deceptive as any other group - Gasland, for example, was a crock.

Greed is a pajorative that is not fair. What would you expect an energy company to be doing? I would expect them to satisfy the needs of their customers and deliver good returns to their shareholders - that's what business does.

To be fair, environmentalists have accomplished a lot of good things. Power generation is far cleaner today than it was 20 or 30 years ago. Same with water quality. I could go, but suffice to say that I recognize that a lot of positive things have been accomplished.

I've been in the electric power business for more than 30 years and I'm pretty tuned into what's going on with environmental regulation. I see both sides the issue. My own view is that there is a need to balance the interests of all the stakeholders, but that is not a view I see shared by environmentalists very often.