Rockefellers Call for Changes at Exxon Mobil

Irony, thy name is irony.

Fifteen descendants of John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil are calling for Exxon Mobil to make corporate governance changes and adopt a renewable fuels strategy blah blah blah.

Heard a Dallas talk show guy ponder about this yesterday, you know what would have been sweet when that moron Ed Markey was whining at the oil company execs about why they don't invest more money into alternative fuels? If just one of those guys had leaned into the microphone and replied "I'll tell you why congressman. Because we are a fucking oil company. We explore for, extract, deliver and refine petroleum. That's what we do. We don't make hamburgers. We don't deliver pizza either. Dipshit".

Ok the radio guy didn't say "fucking" and "dipshit", that's all me. I took a good idea and improved upon it a bit.

[Neva Rockefeller] Goodwin called on Exxon to reconnect with the forward-looking vision of her great grandfather.

"Kerosene was the alternative energy of its day when he realized it could replace whale oil. Part of John D. Rockefeller's genius was in recognizing early the need and opportunity for a transition to a better, cheaper and cleaner fuel."

Not exactly, dear. His genius was replacing whale oil with a product he just happened to produce and sell. Visionary.

UPDATE (from the sidebar): What could we do about it? We could hire China to explore in the Gulf for us.

Oh wait. Cuba already did that.

posted by Dave In Texas at 09:17 AM

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