Posted by Snow in 
Valdez-wise, I doubt I can ever get down with homies who believe ExxonMobil is the green company of any year. Ask the fishermen in Alaska whose lives turned to mud. The current issue of Forbes would have us believe otherwise, and being that Forbes promotes wealth ahead of sustainability, it’s a dubious distinction.
The Forbes article goes on to detail how extensive ExxonMobil’s commitment to global gas power development has come. It’s never been properly explained to me how the benefits and profit of sales of materials like gas or coal can add up to anything after the cost of refineries, manpower, and shipping come into play.
The article is right about one thing, natural gas is a terribly cost intensive business right now. And I take exception to the minimalizing of natural geothermal and wind turbine contribution potential to planetary energy resources.
The side bar brags: “Algae from oil; Just a sideshow”. Why isn’t Exxonmobil pouring its “energy” into something we have plenty of, instead of marching off to Qatar for natural gas development? Why is the largest natural gas plant being built in the desert on the other side of the planet? Haven’t we built enough over there?
The comments of ExxonMobil cgief Rex Tillerson sound strange in this new American recession:
“People ask me all the time, ‘What’s the holdup?’” says Tillerson. “‘You made all these billions of dollars of commitments in Qatar; why can’t you make them in Alaska?’” In short, he says, it’s because Qatar is “willing to put terms in place to give you stability to go out and make that kind of commitment.” But, he says, “we have difficulties having that same kind of conversation, not just with Alaskans but in this country in general.”
Windmills and solar panels might make us feel good, but a better solution might be to give bad ol’ Big Oil the chance to develop our own bountiful supplies of natural gas.”
If you ask me, it’s this oil-centric, oil is the only way attitude that has kept us dependent on fossil fuels, and it’s this kind of thinking that keeps the cycle rolling. How can we be emerging from foreign oil control and its disadvantages if we are simply becoming dependent on foreign natural gas? And why are we building refineries for sheiks?
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