Exxon - Bush Connectin Revealed

[ewagner]

by The Guardian again. A FOIA request by GreenPeace brought these memos out.

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1501646,00.html?gusrc=rss>

snip:

In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is found thanking Exxon executives for the company's "active involvement" in helping to determine climate change policy, and also seeking its advice on what climate change policies the company might find acceptable.

The papers further state that the White House considered Exxon "among the companies most actively and prominently opposed to binding approaches to cut greenhouse gas emissions".

But in evidence to the UK House of Lords science and technology committee in 2003, Exxon's head of public affairs, Nick Thomas, said: "I think we can say categorically we have not campaigned with the United States government or any other government to take any sort of position over Kyoto."

The documents, which reflect unanimity between the company and the US administration on the need for more global warming science and the unacceptable costs of Kyoto, state that Exxon believes that joining Kyoto "would be unjustifiably drastic and premature". This line has been taken consistently by President Bush, and was expected to be continued in yesterday's talks with Tony Blair who has said that climate change is "the most pressing issue facing mankind".


Now....what impact will this revealation have on the Bush* administration?

[whistle]

1. I am shocked, shocked I tell you to learn that there is gambling...

....going on in Rick's cafe......Here are your winnings from the table inspector....Oh, thank you very much! -- Casablanca

I think the term is "dirty", George W Bush's hands are dirty as are his bank accounts and those of his entire family.

[ewagner]

2. Yes, but

this is the first time (if I recall correctly) that we've actually had documents to prove it....OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS!

Is this big? Or will it pass without a whimper?

[Karenina]

7. How 'bout a toon?

[whistle]

8. hahahahaha

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Democrat 4 Ever]

4. Exxon is making too much money. I posted this on Monday...

This is sorta on the subject. It appears to really pay off to be a pal of Chimpy. Exxon now has terrible, terrible problems with cash flow. Here is what I posted -

If you are not getting the Hightower Lowdown you are missing a really great newsletter. Ol' Jim is a Texan that has Commander Cuckoobanana's number. He always seems to find those little tidbits that no one else reports. Today, children, we need to worry about Exxon. They are making too much money, bless their little hearts.

JUNE 2005 VOLUME #7 NUMBER #6
Edited by Jim Hightower and Phillip Frazer


HELP EASE EXXON'S HEADACHE

Friends, I'm appealing to your innate generosity—I want you all to reach out and do all you can to assist Mr. Lee Raymond.

He's the CEO of Exxon Mobil, and wait'll you learn about his desperate situation. His company has so much cash that he doesn't know what to do with it. And you thought you had problems. Here is Fortune's gloomy analysis of the situation: " suddenly has a new anxiety: how to spend the windfall wrought by $55-a-barrel oil. By the end of April, Exxon a cash hoard of more than $25 billion. And if crude prices stay where they are, this geometrically growing bonanza could soon give Exxon more cash on hand than any other U.S. company.... Each dollar jump in the price of a barrel of oil adds another half billion in earnings. Based on current prices, Exxon is accumulating more than $1 billion a month—even after allocating for dividends, share repurchases, and capital spending. If oil simply stays where it is now, Exxon's cash could approach $40 billion in 12 months."

I have no doubt that you feel Mr. Raymond's pain and will want to help him cope with what Fortune called "the headache of what to do with all that cash."

Just to get your creative juices flowing, I'll offer an obvious way for Exxon to end this "crisis" of excess cash gushing into its coffers: Stop gouging us at the pump!But I'm sure you have more creative suggestions. Send your ideas for easing Mr. Raymond's headache to me: [e-mail] .

http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/index.cfm

[welshTerrier2]

3. ummm ... none ???

the problem is that Democrats continue to fail to educate the American people on the broader picture ... until the Democratic Party paints a much clearer picture about how virtually all federal policy is written for the corporate state by the corporate state, we will not be able to get any traction on stories like this ...

the Party is so afraid of being labeled as "anti-business" that they tread far too delicately on making the real case to the American people ... it's bad policy and it's bad politics ...

[acmavm]

5. What impact? Well besides the people here who read it and Europeans

who have absolutely no impact on our government, how many Americans do you think have heard about or read this article?

We have to have the most backward intellectually lazy population on the fact of the earth. It wouldn't surprise me if a village of jungle habitating Amazon bush people would prove to have a higher I.Q. than your average American.

[tabasco]

6. Cheney's Energy Task Force

When the truth is revealed it will show that the task force was a who's who of oil company executives.

Worthless, traitorous curs like the Enron criminals who were joking about stealing Granny's money.

We all pay the price when robber barons loot the nation.