If I were uncertain who to vote for this November 6th, this would convince me beyond any doubt that Barack Obama is my candidate:
ExxonMobil is returning fire after President Obama singled out the oil giant in Wednesday’s debate when calling for an end to billions of dollars in industry tax breaks.
“To hear President Barack Obama in last night’s first presidential debate, you would think he was running against ExxonMobil this November given his tendency to single us out for criticism,” wrote Ken Cohen, an Exxon executive, on the company’s blog Thursday.
I won’t even buy coffee from ExxonMobil, let alone gasoline. They’re probably the most evil organization on the planet. Anyone who upsets their top executives automatically has my support.
No doubt among the most evil.
Your link points back to the front page.
Thanks, that is fixed now.
I won’t make apologies for ExxonMobil. Depending on the day they are the biggest company on the planet and they make no apologies for that. They deserve no subsidies of any kind.
But trust me there are many more evil companies. Several in pharma to start. Several Russian and Chinese for second. And this is just one executive on a company blog.
Goldman Sachs, Moody’s and its peers, Koch Industries, the former Outboard Marine, duPont, Shell, BP come immediately to mind, to say nothing of all the governments, religious groups, and dictatorships around the world. More evil? Hard to make the distinction. But all pretty much in the same evil box.
They’re so evil people don’t even recognize them as evil anymore. Wasn’t it Bill O’Reilly several years back who called on listeners to drive on by every Exxon pump?
My friends, who are staunchly conservative, were part of the Exxon Valdez calamity and were part of the handful who waded all the way through to the Supreme Court and they never could connect the dots on the final vote that kicked them back out into the cold. It broke them.
No. For instance, even just considering oil companies BP is probably worse. Because BP has put in a lot of effort into convincing people that they care and are becoming more “green.” So all the evil of ExxonMobil, but with an added layer of deception.
Yeah, Exxon doesn’t try very hard to hide its heart of darkness. Maybe that’s a small point in its favor.
Big Oil thinks they should get to privately and undemocratically decide our planet’s future. Obama has dutifully worked to accomodate oil interests (more drilling than ever, no gas tax), but if he so much as coughs at the near feudal protection they receive from the federal government, all the sudden he’s enemy number 1. This tells you about the fanatical mindset of the people bankrolling the right. They want every penny.
I can’t fault him for not increasing the gas tax. Increasing the gas tax would be a good thing for the planet and the country. But it would be political suicide at this time.
Why would it be political suicide? People want decent roads to drive their huge gas guzzlers on, right? Roads just don’t fix themselves. I’m sure there is a more PC way of selling the above, but you get my point about how it could be sold.
People are upset about gas prices. Republicans here are hammering on it. (Granted, we have the highest prices in the Nation) Adding a tax would drive off huge swathes of suburban voters.
Sounds good. Would you happen to know where one might find a non-evil alternative?