Exxon exec has trouble adapting

[$tevie]

For Christ's sake, does anyone have an opinion about the OP or did you just come here to prove once again that nobody here can discuss anything except national politicians? Is it really so difficult to think about something besides famous people???

[$tevie]

Ted King wrote:
Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, the guy who agreed that CO₂ is warming the climate but said...

"We have spent our entire existence adapting. We'll adapt. It's an engineering problem and there will be an engineering solution."

... as though it wouldn't be easier to solve the engineering problems if there wasn't so much CO₂ in the atmosphere and that the worse the problem is, the more suffering there will be. But if you're really rich and manage one of the most profitable corporations in the world then it's just another engineering problem like figuring out how to drill for oil in deep ocean water without occasionally creating massive oil spills - which they'll figure out any day now, for sure, probably.

Now, in another display of plutocratic hubris, he does this:

http://beforeitsnews.com/environment/201...93612.html

As ExxonMobil’s CEO, it’s Rex Tillerson’s job to promote the hydraulic fracturing enabling the recent oil and gas boom, and fight regulatory oversight. The oil company is the biggest natural gas producer in the U.S., relying on the controversial drilling technology to extract it.

The exception is when Tillerson’s $5 million property value might be harmed. Tillerson has joined a lawsuit that cites fracking’s consequences in order to block the construction of a 160-foot water tower next to his and his wife’s Texas home.

The Wall Street Journal reports the tower would supply water to a nearby fracking site, and the plaintiffs argue the project would cause too much noise and traffic from hauling the water from the tower to the drilling site. The water tower, owned by Cross Timbers Water Supply Corporation, “will sell water to oil and gas explorers for fracing [sic] shale formations leading to traffic with heavy trucks on FM 407, creating a noise nuisance and traffic hazards,” the suit says.

Though Tillerson’s name is on the lawsuit, a lawyer representing him said his concern is about the devaluation of his property, not fracking specifically.

When he is acting as Exxon CEO, not a homeowner, Tillerson has lashed out at fracking critics and proponents of regulation. “This type of dysfunctional regulation is holding back the American economic recovery, growth, and global competitiveness,” he said in 2012. Natural gas production “is an old technology just being applied, integrated with some new technologies,” he said in another interview. “So the risks are very manageable.”

Here's the difference. Tillerson will be dead before the planet is ruined so he's not all that concerned. What concerns him is what may happen to his property while he is still alive and using it. It's an inability to make the leap to the realization that we are all "homeowners" of Mother Earth, and lots of those Big Energy people suffer from it.

[OWC Jamie]

DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=billb]
...poor driving skills *cough* mary jo *cough*.

Geeze, that was almost 45 years ago, and the guy's been dead himself for 4 1/2 years.

Get over it. [ Until this is your forum I'll make any comparisons, comparatives , allusions, and cast and aspersions on the dead I want.
and I'm still not gay and that is not a response to your advances.

[DeusxMac]

billb wrote:
I'm still not gay...

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?2...sg-1688001

[max]

DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=billb]
I'm still not gay...

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?2...sg-1688001
And in the next post you are going to blame max for you going off topic again, DeusxMac.....