Commentary: Exxon
by Rev. Michael S. Piazza
Just
when you think it is save to go back in the water...or breath
the air again this current administration reaches new lows in
hubris and hypocrisy. President Bush, former oilman from Midland
has decided that global warming deserves some attention, but
consider the attention he is giving it. This is how Greenwatch
reports his latest actions:
Even for
an administration dedicated to putting industry lobbyists in
charge of the very agencies they have devoted their careers
to undermining (coal and oil lobbyist J. Stephen Griles as
Deputy Secretary of the Interior is one of dozens of examples),
President Bush has recently outdone himself. He has named Lee
Raymond, the retired chief of ExxonMobil, to head a key study
to help America chart a cleaner course for our energy needs.
Raymond currently chairs the National Petroleum Council (NPC),
one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington.
Environmentalists
are justifiably outraged about this appointment. During his long
tenure at ExxonMobil, the company spent over $19 million on front
groups designed to discredit the science on global warming. http://www.exxposeexxon.com.
Under his leadership ExxonMobil also resisted funding all clean
energy alternatives and lobbied aggressively to drill in the
Arctic Wilderness Refuge. Talk about paying the fox to guard
the hen house.
Does the Administration
think we:
- Are all
idiots,
- Are not
paying attention as he thumbs his nose at our values or,
- Simply
don’t care if industries like ExxonMobil continue to
rake in billions of dollars in profit while they rape the environment?
It is time
to let your outrage be heard. Take action NOW. There is only
one earth and it belongs to God not Mr. Bush and Cheney and their
greedy oilmen friends.
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