Re: Pawns willing to do bidding of Big Oil.

Harry Hope wrote:
From The Herald-Mail, 12/30/07:
http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=182143&format=html

Pawns willing to do bidding of Big Oil

By Robert Gary


Science should guide us.

Alternative science, whether on global warming or on evolution is fake
science — i.e. nonscience.

Alternative science may be devised in the interest of religion (the
intelligent design argument), or of political ideology (the
global-warming deniers and later those who say that humans can have no
meaningful effect on global warming).

Bad policy comes mainly from bias, yours, mine, those who would
manipulate I and thou.

Fake science, created by the big oil companies, is never repeated or
adopted by the community of authentic scientists who publish their
data in peer-reviewed journals and who do science on a workaday basis.

Big oil has a natural bias in favor of the "no global warming" view,
and most recently in favor of the "nothing we can do about it" view.

In the interest of this bias it is very easy to manipulate politicians
by making campaign contributions.

The politicians in turn, including Ronald Reagan, George Herbert
Walker Bush, and George W. Bush, can then manipulate the common man by
creating the idea that being a true conservative means being a
global-warming denier or a "nothing we can do about it" asserter.

Al Gore just got a Nobel Prize for his work on global warming.

What is it going to take?

At what point would the deniers finally see "Hey, fellas we are living
in a make-believe world — who made us believe these things?"

Cash and carefully planted alternative "fake" science lets big oil
make pawns out of the common man.

They make waterworld out of planet Earth by enslaving the minds of the
voting citizens so the corporate shareholders can get big bucks, and
more importantly, so the corporate executives can get even bigger
bucks.

Big tobacco did exactly the same thing.

They were never brought to book for their misdeeds.

The top brass kills millions of Americans every year while they pay
themselves the seven-figure salaries.

Big oil, big guns, big nuclear, big tobacco, it's all one club.

They have the leather chairs, the fine cigars and a jolly good laugh
at what they are doing to everybody else.

When "true conservative" in the mind of the common man becomes gun
owner, smoker, global warming denier, this is what in the marketing
business is called product positioning, or brand positioning.

It doesn't take more than a few hundred million dollars to make it
happen, and that's chump change to these guys.

And in whose name does this happen?

For what?

The big oil shareholders get a few cents more in their dividends.

The regular guy who buys gasoline gets to save a buck and lose the
world and be made a pawn in their game.

Fake science gets to masquerade as the real thing, as long as one gets
far enough away from the big cities and the major universities.

Rebalancing this discussion is going to require some passion.

All it takes for evil to prevail in this world is for good men and
women to do nothing.

Falsehood, intentionally promulgated for economic gain, is
dishonorable.

Taking advantage of the educational shortcomings of working men and
women to present fake science as if it were the real thing is a form
of intentional falsehood.

Using the herds already created by religion and political ideology to
sell a totally backward proposition contrived by oil companies is an
act that needs a countervailing force.

I'm not looking to be a loner.

I want rational men and women to join me — liberals, conservatives,
independents, theists, atheists, agnostics, rich, poor and middle
class.

Science should guide us.

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Robert Gary, ladies and gentlemen.

Harry

I would tend to think that the author is overly biased and substitutes his beliefs and preconceived hatred( possibly justified ) of big oil in his treatise. Big oil is not stupid; they understand that their reserves are limited and may in fact, have peaked. some recent commercials I have seen from oil companies specifically make mention of global warming and carbon offsets in their PR regarding research. Those commercials do indeed acknowledge the role of humans and fossil fuels in contributing to global warming.

True, the author both states and infers that Big Oil is more interested in profits in both the short and long term. Since there are no alternative fuels available on a significantly large scale now, it is understandable that they want to reap as much profit in the short term as they can from oil. But they understand that in the long term, they have no future, and to ignore global warming and the role of fossil fuels is sheer stupidity.

I read the above. IMHO, I would suggest that the author shed his emotional posturing in favor of a more rational approach. As Big Oil, finally seems to be doing.
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