From the press release:
‘CarnivOil’ Comes to Richmond, Celebrating the Greatest Addiction on Earth
Big Oil: Keeping America dependent on oil for 150 years and celebrating
victory over
Virginia’s clean energy futureRichmond, Va. – The U.S. Senate’s failure to pass a clean energy and
climate bill this summer, coupled with the continued push to block new
clean air standards, is reason to celebrate if you profit from America’s
oil addiction. Highlighting Big Oil’s stranglehold on Washington, we
present “CarnivOil”: the Greatest Addiction on Earth – a celebration of
America’s addiction to oil with an outdoor midway-style carnival
complete with games, concessions, and some Big Oil-style celebrating.
Step right up! Don’t be afraid. See the world’s biggest polluters – by
looking behind the curtain.Games will include the Petroleum Wheel of Doom, Oil Executive Boxing and
the Big Oil version of the famous Hammer game. The event highlights Big
Oil’s success in pocketing Congress, while blocking progress toward a
clean energy future and threatening to kill American jobs and worsen
public health with the Dirty Air Act.WHAT: CarnivOil: The Greatest Addiction on Earth: complete with games to
celebrate Big Oil’s successWHEN: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
TIME: 11 am – 1 pm ET
WHERE: Monroe Park, 620 W. Main St., Richmond, Va. 23220
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For more information, contact:
Sarah Driscoll, sdriscoll@environmentvirginia.org
Phone: (603) 236-2097
It >IS< a shame that the U.S. Senate couldn't pass a clean energy bill this summer, especially since the Democrats have a majority in Congress.
By the way, with a dividend yield of 3.00%, that is better than CD's offer at banks. Currently, XOM is paying $0.44 per share!
According to Exxon's most recent 10-k filing with the SEC, it appears they will be in much better financial shape than BP in quarters to come (at least in regards to legal precedings).
Don't diss the oil companies.
Further, Exxon paid nearly $10 Billion (yes, that is a B, not an M) in the first half of 2010, according to their Statement of Cash Flows.
(Note: I forgot the word “taxes” after the word “Billions”.)
Everyone attending better be walking or riding a bike to the event and not own a gasoline powered vehicle or you are a hypocrite.
Right. And it better be a bike made out of bamboo also.
Thankfully, I am typing on a wooden computer using hand cranked electricity.
http://scfoj.tumblr.com/post/1046088537/carnivoil-parodies-big-oil-celebration
I am typing on a wooden computer using hand cranked electricity.
That’s funny Scott, seriously.
I would respect environmentalists more if they lived their lives more like the Amish: no electricity, no car (they use ‘real horsepower’), no IPhones, no purchasing of skinny jeans (make their own clothes), etc.
Yes, there’s certain amount of leading by example involved, but I am not sure where this idiotic attitude that people who are concerned about the environment must deprive themselves of all modern devices comes from. For one thing, there’s no way to hold back the tide that is coming-
“Tata Motors (TTM +2.1%) plans to sell the world’s cheapest car, the $2,500 Nano, outside India – in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. The automaker, owner of Jaguar and land Rover, returned to a profit in the past fiscal year.”
Its more about finding new, more substainable lifestyles. We don’t need to become Amish as much as we need to redesign our ways of life to protect the environment.
Do we have apps for that? Look at the earlier post on the ZipCar. Look at earlier posts on solar and more efficient power grid.
What are Exxon and other corporations doing to help with this transformation?
Their actions, which speak louder than words, tell us they don’t care about humans or the environment, they just care about profits for shareholders. They deserve scorn.
1) “Big Oil’s” focus has always been on oil and producing gasoline primarily…nothing new here
2) I would like to see cleaner energy too, but another vendor needs to bring new ideas to the marketplace that actually works and the public will accept
3) Holding “Big Oil” accountable for the transformation to “Clean Energy” is like holding the United States Post Office accountable for creating new,green ways to communicate: text messages, online bill pay, etc. BOTTOM LINE: Quit holding your breath and your wishful thinking!
4) Stop wasting your time waiting for the government to do something…the Department of Energy was created 33 years ago to find new alternative resources for energy…have they found anything??
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/08/why-conservatives-are-bad-on-energy
“Solar relies on price supports from the government. Fair enough — though its price is falling even faster than fossil fuels are rising.
But if Friedman were going to compare the costs of competing forms of energy, he also would have wanted to know the cost of “ordinary energy.” Figured on the same basis. This is something the self-proclaimed conservative opponents of solar refuse to do.
But huge companies including Wall Mart, IBM, Target and Los Gatos Tomatoes figured it out. And last year so did the National Academy of Sciences. It produced a report on the Hidden Costs of Energy that documented how coal was making people sick to the tune of $63 billion a year.
And that oil and natural gas had so many tax breaks and subsidies that were so interwoven for so long, it was hard to say exactly how many tens of billions these energy producers received courtesy of the U.S. Taxpayer.
Just a few weeks ago, the International Energy Agency said worldwide, fossil fuels receive $550 billion in subsidies a year — 12 times what alternatives such as wind and solar get.
Neither report factored in Global Warming or the cost of sending our best and bravest into harm’s way to protect our energy supply lines.”
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dpettit/extortion_and_our_clean_energy.html
“It seems BP’s claiming that they simply cannot promise to pay for the clean up that they already promised to pay for unless Congress eases off stronger drilling protections in the Gulf. That’s the breaking news from this article in the New York Times today.”
The Macondo task force says oil companies (including BP (BP) and Transocean (RIG)) aren’t cooperating with their probe.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68R59P20100928
IMHO, time to start dissolving some corporate charters and bring these crooks to heel.
Let’s show the Big Oil companies we don’t need them…let’s all buy a Nissan Leaf!!