BUSH REALLY IS A STOOGE FOR THE OIL COMPANIES
Exxon told President "no" on reducing greenhouse gasses

From the London Guardian:

Until now Exxon has publicly maintained that it had no involvement in the US government's rejection of Kyoto. But the documents, obtained by Greenpeace under US freedom of information legislation, suggest this is not the case.

"Potus [president of the United States] rejected Kyoto in part based on input from you [the Global Climate Coalition]," says one briefing note before Ms Dobriansky's meeting with the GCC, the main anti-Kyoto US industry group, which was dominated by Exxon.

The papers further state that the White House considered Exxon "among the companies most actively and prominently opposed to binding approaches [like Kyoto] to cut greenhouse gas emissions".

But in evidence to the UK House of Lords science and technology committee in 2003, Exxon's head of public affairs, Nick Thomas, said: "I think we can say categorically we have not campaigned with the United States government or any other government to take any sort of position over Kyoto."

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Not that this comes as any surprise, but it's nice to have yet another smoking-gun memo proving beyond a doubt how lame our President is. The real point, which is also no surprise but well worth mentioning, is that the oil companies, in order to fatten their already enormous wallets, are doing everything they can behind the scenes to slowly drive the human race toward extinction. This is certainly warrants some straight-up panic: Big Oil is extraordinarily powerful and influential, and it's pretty clear that they are using that power and influence to subvert sane policy making.

Really, we ought to just nationalize the entire industry. Heh.

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