The Men Who Raised Gasoline Prices: CEOs Darren Woods, Michael Wirth and Bernard Looney. Causing Astonishing Profits for ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP. Biden to Meet With Them Next Week. Hey Joe: Tell 'em to STOP PRICE GOUGING!

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/politics/biden-oil-ceos/index.html

Headline: Biden administration invites oil CEOs to meeting next week on gas prices... (6/16/2022)

The Energy Department sent an invitation to oil industry executives Wednesday night to meet next week to discuss high gas prices, an official familiar with the matter tells CNN.

The official said the invitation went out to the same seven oil companies to which President Joe Biden wrote a letter on Tuesday: Marathon Petroleum, Valero Energy, ExxonMobil, Phillips 66, Chevron, BP and Shell. 

Headline: House approves bill to combat gasoline ‘price gouging’  - May 19th, 2022But Republicans Killed the Bill so they Could Continue to Get Bribes from Oil Companies... 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/house-approves-bill-to-combat-gasoline-price-gouging

A closely divided House approved legislation Thursday to crack down on alleged price gouging by oil companies and other energy producers as prices at the pump continue to soar.

A bill backed by House Democrats would give President Joe Biden authority to declare an energy emergency that would make it unlawful to increase gasoline and home energy fuel prices in an “excessive” or exploitative manner. The bill directs the Federal Trade Commission to punish companies that engage in price gouging.

“At a time when people across the country are feeling the pinch at the gas pump, Congress needs to be doing all it can to bring down costs for American families,″ said Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wash., who co-sponsored the bill.

She called it “infuriating” that spikes in gas prices were “happening at the same time that gas and oil companies are making record profits and taking advantage of international crises to make a profit. This must stop.″

The measure was approved, 217-207. Republicans unanimously opposed the bill, along with four Democrats.

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GREENWASHING - Examples of Corporations Publishing Advertisements That Make Them Look Like They are Doing Ecological Work while they are Actually Destroying The Environment.

Many TV Advertisements SELL CONCEPTS Not Products... For Example: The CONCEPT That The Corporation ExxonValdez is a BioEngineering Pioneer and They are Ecological Saints! Just Look at Their Corporate Symbol... a TREE! 

Totally Creepy ExxonValdez TV AD

Hug It and FORGET That Their Fossil Fuels are Causing Climate Change and the Extinction of Human Life on Earth ---> It is All PROPAGANDA DESIGNED TO MAKE EVIL CORPORATIONS LOOK WONDERFUL <---

BECOME AWARE AND THEIR CORPORATE BRAINWASHING FAILS... They Count on A GULLIBLE PUBLIC That BELIEVES LIES... 

British Petroleum Shows Films of Windmills... Bayer [Monsanto] want you to FORGET That They Are the Maker of RoundUP=Cancer... They Try To Distract You... Remember... We Invented Aspirin! That's what We do!

Hot Stock Market Tip: Sell all Stock in Fossil Fuel Companies... Their Business is DOOMED! Invest in Solar, Wind and COMPANIES THAT MAKE AIR CONDITIONERS... With The entire Planet Heating UP, many People will want COOL AIR...

It’s time to rein in the fossil fuel giants before their greed chokes the planet...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/09/fossil-fuel-giants-greed-carbon-emissions

Boycott Plastic Garbage! Chicken of the Sea Tuna is Marketing "Infusions" with a Plastic Bowl, Lid and Fork. Trash that will pollute the Earth for 10,000 Years. REFUSE TO BUY PLASTIC CRAP.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/09/boycot-plastic-garbage-chicken-of-sea.html

I Oppose Small PLASTIC Containers for Single Servings of Food. Since We Already Have the Technology to Make Milk Cartons, WHY NOT use Waxed Paper for Cheese, Coffee, Yogurt and Sliced Ham? https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/i-oppose-small-plastic-containers-for.html

I keep on seeing TV advertisements for Keurig Coffee that puts ONE CUP Worth of coffee grounds in a little PLASTIC container... Ridiculous! We have been brewing coffee for Hundreds of Years without Little Plastic Cups! You buy a two pound Aluminum Can and scoop a few spoonfuls into your percolator... or your drip coffee machine... using brown paper filters... simple, easy, clean, ecological and NOW, ALL OF A SUDDEN, WE HAVE AN INVENTION THAT CREATES MILLIONS OF LITTLE PLASTIC CUPS!

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Oil and Gas Corporations are spending millions of dollars on campaigns to fight climate regulations at the same time as touting their dedication to a low-carbon future, according to a joint analysis by the Guardian and InfluenceMap.

Their global PR campaigns on social media promote a commitment to a green, low-carbon future, but across the US in particular, specific local campaigns are obstructing tighter regulations on fossil fuel extraction.

In many cases, oil and gas companies are using direct advertising but some targeted lobbying appears to be more opaque. It is channelled through so called “community” groups – which are being funded by fossil fuel companies.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/10/fossil-fuel-firms-social-media-fightback-against-climate-action

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HEY, ECO-WARRIORS! I Loved Riding the Bus and Light Rail in San Jose and EUREKA, California. I Remember I was able to get to work on the Bus ...and... Drinking and Driving is Not Only Illegal But Actually Dangerous While Drinking and Riding the Bus is FUN...

On Halloween, I Brought My Guitar and Sang for the Party Goers on the San Jose Light Rail... BIG FUN!

More Importantly, I Rode from Almaden to the San Jose Public Library and Used the Free Computers there to Build a Website in the Late 1990s. Tripod and Yahoo Geocities... I didn't know what I was doing but the Other Patrons were Happy to Help. My Content is Still Online 23 Years Later! http://www.oocities.org/gregvan/

Solar Powered Street Lights Would Save a LOT of Electricity Currently Being Generated in Coal, Natural Gas and Atomic Power Plants (Polluting the World) and Distributed Using WIRES. That's WASTEFUL and DANGEROUS... POWER LINES CAUSE FOREST FIRES. 

Nothing NEW Needs to Be Invented... We Ought to Simply Replace the Millions of Old Style Street Lights... With Solar Cells and LED Lamps... The Concept of Generating Power in One Central Location and Distributing it to the User is Quite Wasteful... Some Electricity JUST VANISHES over the Long Distance... and DANGEROUS because the Wires Start Forest Fires... PG&E Power Company Just Burned the Entire Town Of Paradise, CA... and It Caused the Company to Go Bankrupt. Distributing Power From a Central Generator is an Obsolete Idea. What if Every House had Solar Panels on the Roof That Provided Enough Electricity to UNPLUG FROM THE GRID...

Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

https://www.senate.gov/general/contacting.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives

Truly Creepy TV Advertisements... Power Past Impossible Pro Oil Propaganda... Trying to sell the idea that burning Fossil Fuels is Wonderful...

It has become obvious that Renewable Energy is our future but... all those people employed in the Fossil Fuel Industry are fighting for their lives to keep the USA purchasing increasing quantities of Oil and Gas... Their jobs depend on a steady flow of oil out of the ground into refineries and into our gas tanks... and all that plastic crap that is polluting the planet... Plastic does not "go away" ever... and we already see giant swirls of floating plastic in the oceans... The People that are employed by Exxon, Shell, BP, Halliburton and Koch have vast pools of money that they are now using to buy advertising talent to convince you and I that it is "cool" to buy gas... and plastic...

an alternative to buying corporate crap is to simply reduce the amount you travel in a car... In my youth it was fashionable to drive all over the USA following The Grateful Dead (an American Rock Band)... really... people (including me) would drive 8 hours or more to attend yet another concert... I'm not making this up... Well, now days traveling places is not really needed anymore... We can travel using the internet to see what's happening on the other side of the planet... It's all this driving around that is causing Climate Change.

Of Course, we all have to drive to work every day... Unless we live close enough to the office to ride the bus... Twice in my lifetime I was able to ride the bus to work. San Jose has great bus/light rail service and so does Eureka, California. One advantage to riding the bus is that you meet people... and become friends with them. In my case I met some women on the bus. I like women and was glad to have their friendship. We would sit in the back and chat for a half an hour every workday. VERY Pleasant...

Quit buying Plastic Crap. I'll say it again... Quit buying Plastic Crap. Just look for an alternative... One thing that is absurd is all the plastic bottles for drinking water... why not drink the water right out of the tap? The answer is that often tap water is poisonous... Well, what we need to do as a society is clean up the water that comes into our homes... really... Remember that showering in poisonous water is as bad for your health as drinking fracked water... and a coke at Taco Bell comes in a plastic cup... why not a waxed paper cup?

another alternative action  is to divest your stock market portfolio of oil and gas investments... Like we divested from tobacco companies... simply call your stockbroker and ask to switch ownership of stock from oil and gas to solar and wind... It's an investment strategy that will win in the long run.


https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/06/american-petroleum-institute-superbowl-ad-oil-power-past-impossible American Petroleum Institute Launches Pro-Oil Ad Campaign... In this latest case, the real question is why API decided to begin lobbying the public directly, rather than using its money and clout to influence politicians who actually create the laws and some of the regulations governing the oil and gas industry. The answer to that question is likely simple: The oil and gas industries are already maximizing the benefits they are receiving from elected leaders, and are now focusing on gaining public approval.

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AIDS Was Spread by Gay Men Sex. Remember the Quilt When You Choose Your Lifestyle... LEARN FROM HISTORY! -and- Corporate Greenwashing Propaganda by ExxonVadez and Coke, Pepsi & Keurig/Dr Pepper...

 

AIDS Quilt - Dead Gay Men
Magically... Women Did Not Spread AIDS

It's A Bad Choice...
But Go Ahead, It's YOUR Choice!

GBLTQ+ Stands For:
Great Bacon Lettuce and Tomato
Quack, Quack, Quack!

and Now I see a Lot of TV Advertisements for
HIV Drugs... They Give the Un-Said Impression
that Being a Gay Man is Somehow "OK"
Don't Worry about Dying from AIDS...
We Have a "Cure"

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Corporations are ALSO Publishing Bogus Propaganda... Look at all the Advertisements on TV showing ExxonValdez's New Logo - A TREE! Nope... They aren't Killing the Planet with Global Warming Caused by Burning Fossil Fuel... How Could they be EVIL When Their Logo is a TREE!

Coke, Pepsi & Keurig/Dr Pepper have Realized that People Hate Plastic Garbage... So They Make A TV AD With Smiling Healthy Clean Cut Americans... Telling YOU That YOU Can Recycle Their Plastic Garbage! SEE? We're Doing OUR PART... It's YOU That's Causing Massive Plastic Pollution Worldwide... 

Remember Keurig? They are the People That use a tiny plastic cup to hold coffee grounds... so every cup causes massive plastic pollution for 10,000 years... My Parents Made Coffee using a Percolator that Had NO Disposable Parts at ALL... We put the Grounds in an Aluminum Basket with Tiny Holes... and Washed it When We Were Done... Just like We Washed our Coffee Cups... 

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Elizabeth Warren Would make a GREAT Secretary of the Treasury... If she doesn't win the 2020 Election, Sanders should appoint her. She has Great Ideas. Kamala Harris for Attorney General. Cory Booker at HUD... Every Democratic Candidate Ought to Get a Cabinet Post. WHAT IF WE ALL WORK TOGETHER AS A TEAM?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren/democrat-warren-confronts-2020-electability-question-head-on-in-ohio-idUSKCN1SH0DH


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It may be GREENWASHING but ExxonValdez Might actually discover something worthwhile... GO! https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/10/nrel-exxonmobil-team-up-for-renewable-energy-research/
the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado has teamed up with ExxonMobil to “pursue new breakthroughs in low-emission energy technologies,” according to the Denver Post. By the terms of the agreement, ExxonMobil will invest $100 million over the next decade in the NREL’s research programs.

Trump's EPA Ruling in Favor of Corporate Pollution and Against People's Health...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/climate/epa-asbestos-rule-scientists.html
E.P.A. Leaders Disregarded Agency’s Experts in Issuing Asbestos Rule, Memos Show...

Andrew Wheeler, the E.P.A. administrator, said when the rule was issued that it would significantly strengthen public health protections. But in the memos, dated Aug. 10, more than a dozen of E.P.A.’s own experts urged the agency to ban asbestos outright, as do most other industrialized nations.

A Quote from - Richard Brautigan
“Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4.
1.Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.
2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.
3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.
4.” [YES, ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS LEFT BLANK INTENTIONALLY]
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7970.Richard_Brautigan

THE EVIDENCE IS STRONG: AIR POLLUTION SEEMS TO CAUSE DEMENTIA.
https://www.wired.com/story/air-pollution-dementia/
As I reported in Mother Jones, the research implicating air pollution as one factor that can contribute to dementia was alarming, consistent, and, ultimately, “suggestive.” Since then scientists have published a wave of studies that reveal that air pollution is much worse for us than we had previously imagined.

Elie Mystal and Symone Sanders OUGHT TO Form a Rap Music Group... They Could Do Their "Angry Yadda-Yadda" with a Beat and Sell a Gazillion Recordings! Is she Sarah Huckleberry Sander's Sister or Colonel Sander's Daughter?

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/10/epa-air-chief-3238271
A secretive utility industry coalition formerly represented by a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency is dissolving amid investigations into whether its members received special treatment from the Trump administration.

The Utility Air Regulatory Group has been under scrutiny from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which was seeking information on the relationship between power companies, EPA air chief Bill Wehrum and the law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth, which represented the group.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE: I Stopped advertising for Amazon on my Blog... They simply did not pay enough to make the Associates Program worth my time and SPACE ON MY BLOG... I always put a Link to buy my favorite books whenever I wrote a Review... I still write Book Reviews because I want The IDEAS written about to be published worldwide... and the Authors benefit from free advertising... and maybe that will encourage them to write more books... C-SPAN has Interviews with authors every weekend and It's interesting... and Pirate TV also has Authors... "HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE" by Andrew Keen sounds GREAT...

In the "Ender's Game" series of Books by Andrew Scott Card, Ender and his sister become BLOGGERS and Debate Ideas in Public... and cause Galactic Peace thru the publication of worthy concepts... I'm inspired by that book... I'm a Blogger Promoting Whirred Peas by Publishing My Own Words of Wisdom... and Finding Wise Words online and Pirating Them... Did you ever read "The Monkeywrench Gang" by Ed Abbey? It's Wonderful... The Hero, George Washington Hayduke is based on TED Danson of the TV Show "Cheers." 

There Will Always Be Another Last Chance Sale... Quotations of Gregory Vanderlaan

My Brother has "High Frequency Rolloff" Deafness. It Make it Difficult to Hear Women and Children Talk. He Says: "What a Blessing!"

WHO COULD POSSIBLY BENEFIT BY MORE HOMELESS AMERICAN CITIZEN CHILDREN? Proposed Rule Could Evict 55,000 Children From Subsidized Housing
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/10/722173775/proposed-rule-could-evict-55-000-children-from-subsidized-housing
Tens of thousands of poor children — all of them American citizens or legal residents — could lose their housing under a new rule proposed Friday by the Trump administration.

The rule is intended to prevent people who are in the country illegally from receiving federal housing aid, which the administration argues should go to help only legal residents or citizens.

But the proposal targets 25,000 families that now receive such aid because they are of "mixed" status, which means that at least one member of the family is undocumented while the others are citizens or legal residents. These families now pay higher rents to account for their mixed status.


Rap Artist Indicted for Obama 2012 Campaign Donations... How Could It Possibly Matter all these Years Later? This is "OLD NEWS" Just like the Jewish Carpenter who Rose from the Dead 2000 years ago... That's REALLY OLD NEWS... Just Like Trump being the #BillionDollarLoser... That's OLD NEWS... Wait! I Understand why old news matters... We Could LEARN FROM HISTORY! We Ought to Investigate ALL FOREIGN CAMPAIGN DONATIONS! Like the NRA/Russia 30 Million to Trump Scandal... Malaysian businessman Jho Low also charged alongside Pras Michel...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-rap-artist-indicted-for-obama-2012-campaign-donations-11557522077
Former Fugees rapper Pras Michel was indicted on charges of funneling millions of dollars in foreign money to then President Obama’s 2012 re-election effort, amid widening fallout of the multibillion-dollar fraud scandal at a Malaysian government fund.

Why Do We, The Taxpayers, SUBSIDIZE Oil Companies at ALL? Is this an example of Obvious Corruption? YES! Find out if YOUR Representatives in Government are Taking Oil Money in their Campaign... IF SO, Throw then OUT! Here is a List of the Top Twenty Bribe Taking Politicians! Vote Against these SWAMP CREATURES! 18 of the 20 are Republicriminals...

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?ind=E01++

Top 20 Recipients
Rank Candidate Office Amount
1 Gardner, Cory (R-CO) Senate $233,471
2 McCarthy, Kevin (R-CA) House $231,875
3 Cornyn, John (R-TX) Senate $201,390
4 Scalise, Steve (R-LA) House $146,925
5 McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) Senate $125,480
6 Daines, Steven (R-MT) Senate $119,418
7 Cassidy, Bill (R-LA) Senate $108,075
8 O'Rourke, Beto (D) $92,236
9 Trump, Donald (R) $88,912
10 Crenshaw, Dan (R-TX) House $88,872
11 Inhofe, James M (R-OK) Senate $77,650
12 Collins, Susan M (R-ME) Senate $73,800
13 Brady, Kevin (R-TX) House $72,200
14 Sullivan, Dan (R-AK) Senate $70,600
15 Tillis, Thom (R-NC) Senate $70,434
16 Cuellar, Henry (D-TX) House $55,850
17 McSally, Martha (R-AZ) Senate $52,971
18 Taylor, Van (R-TX) House $52,742
19 Roy, Chip (R-TX) House $52,322
20 Toomey, Pat (R-PA) Senate $51,800

METHODOLOGY: The numbers on this page are based on contributions from PACs and individuals giving $200 or more.

All donations took place during the 2019-2020 election cycle and were released by the Federal Election Commission on Thursday, August 01, 2019.

Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics. For permission to reprint for commercial uses, such as textbooks, contact the Center: info@crp.org

Embrace Rainbow Spiralism Postcard FOR SALE:

Classic Art of a Digital Tie Dye.  

 I wonder if they had Tie Dyes in Ancient Greece. Deadheads talking about Plato and The Cave...

Embrace Rainbow Spiralism Postcard
by gregvan

Headline: US Subsidizes Fossil Fuels To The Tune Of $4.6, $27.4, Or $649 Billion Annually, Depending On Source... https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/20/us-subsidizes-fossil-fuels-to-the-tune-of-4-6-27-4-or-649-billion-annually-depending-on-source/

CAUGHT! on tape... Oil Company Lobbyist Bragging about How they Changed the LAW so that Protest is NO LONGER Freedom Of Speech if the Target of the Protest is Oil Companies Building the BLACK SNAKE!

Headline: Leaked Audio Shows Oil Lobbyist Bragging About Success in Criminalizing Pipeline Protests...
"We've seen a lot of success at the state level, particularly starting with Oklahoma in 2017," said Derrick Morgan of American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/20/leaked-audio-shows-oil-lobbyist-bragging-about-success-criminalizing-pipeline

#MoscowMitch Thinks about his Life of Evil

Thank You! Both Obamas Campaign to Defeat Evil Donald Trump. Ever Wonder What Ever Happened to George Bush the Son? Why Doesn't He Campaign FOR TRUMP? Could it be that He is Such an Embarrassment for the Republicrime Party that he has to Stay Hidden? YES! However, Evil Dick Cheney is Campaigning for Trump... Donald Rumsfeld is Silent... 

Headline: The Obamas’ First Big Anti-Trump Statement of 2020... The former first couple’s Netflix documentary offers a quiet response to Trump’s promises to reinvigorate the industrial heartland.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/20/obama-trump-2020-227627

PATRIOTS ARISE! Help Campaign for Amy McGrath for Senate in Kentucky... Beat #MoscowMitch Like a Pinata! He is a Corrupt TrumpNik - Obeying His Master, Vladimir Putin - Register and Vote! Throw all the Corrupt Old White Men OUT. 

 https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/10/amy-mcgrath-for-senate-in-kentucky-beat.html

Hot Stock Market Tip: Sell all Stock in Fossil Fuel Companies... Their Business is DOOMED! Invest in Solar, Wind and COMPANIES THAT MAKE AIR CONDITIONERS... With The entire Planet Heating UP, many People will want COOL AIR...

It’s time to rein in the fossil fuel giants before their greed chokes the planet...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/09/fossil-fuel-giants-greed-carbon-emissions

Totally Creepy ExxonValdez TV AD

Oil and gas companies are spending millions of dollars on campaigns to fight climate regulations at the same time as touting their dedication to a low-carbon future, according to a joint analysis by the Guardian and InfluenceMap.

Their global PR campaigns on social media promote a commitment to a green, low-carbon future, but across the US in particular, specific local campaigns are obstructing tighter regulations on fossil fuel extraction.

In many cases, oil and gas companies are using direct advertising but some targeted lobbying appears to be more opaque. It is channelled through so called “community” groups – which are being funded by fossil fuel companies.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/10/fossil-fuel-firms-social-media-fightback-against-climate-action

ExxonMobilShellBPHalliburtonDowDuPont is Just SUPPLYING WHAT CUSTOMERS WANT. It's the BUYING of Gasoline that's Destroying our Planet. It's the BUYING of Plastic... It's the RUNNING of the Air Conditioner...

It's the Farming Marijuana INDOORS using Grow Lights instead of OUTDOORS in the Free Sunshine... STOP THAT! All that Electricity has to come from somewhere and currently that means burning Natural Gas, Coal or Nukes. About Half Electricity is made using Solar, Hydro and Wind but... Half Isn't! If we just USE LESS there is LESS POLLUTION... Less drilling... Less Fracking... Less Plastic in the Ocean... Fewer Giant Flares burning "waste" gas at refineries and Oil Wells... There would be NO NEED to build a Pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico... #NODAPL...  

Save the BEES! Postcard
by gregvan

The Entire Concept of "CITY" needs to be re-done. People drive vast distances to get to their Slave Jobs in Silicon Valley... There is an Alternative. Look at Chico, California. Small Town built around a University. People prefer to Ride Bicycles because Parking is a REAL Hassle... It's entirely possible to live a CARFREE life there... Some people keep a car for use in Emergencies, like Parents who might have to RUSH to the School to Pick up their Kids... But, the bottom line is Vastly Less Gasoline Purchased because even if you drive to work it's a maximum of ten miles.  

Question Futurism! Postcard
by gregvan

Remember: Nobody Drives Any More, Too Much Traffic!

WHAT IF we stopped living in Cities and Moved out to small towns. All those office jobs could be done in abandoned shopping malls... I remember walking around downtown San Francisco and wondering "What do all these people DO in those Skyscrapers?" They suffer absurd Commutes from Tracy or Sacramento to go sit in a cubical and type on a computer... WELL, Computers Can Be Located Anywhere... I remember that Eureka, California got the Contract to ANSWER THE PHONES and help people apply for Obamacare. All phone work ought to be done in rural USA. Customers HATE talking to people in India to get answers on the Phone. 

We need to END Trump's Crazy Trade War and Put Farmers Back to Work. The Trade War is Literally Killing Americans. Farmer Suicide is Much Higher than it was when Obama was President. 

Why are ExxonValdez and BP [British Petroleum] advertising on Television? Do they hope ads will cause increased sales? It all seems like Propaganda to convince the public that they are NOT EVIL.

What is this organization called Power Past Impossible? They say Climate Change is Wonderful!  Warm Sunny Days in Alaska All Year 'Round!

Those ExxonValdez ads just really creep me out... They constantly show Trees and Meadows and the Park... and Biology research into alternative slime based fuel... BioWillie!

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/IW6P/exxon-mobil-carbon-capture

American Petroleum Institute Launches Pro-Oil Ad Campaign During Super Bowl

https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/06/american-petroleum-institute-superbowl-ad-oil-power-past-impossible

What is fossil fuel divestment?

https://gofossilfree.org/divestment/what-is-fossil-fuel-divestment/

Divestment is the opposite of an investment – it simply means getting rid of stocks, bonds, or investment funds that are unethical or morally ambiguous.

When you invest your money, you might buy stocks, bonds, or other investments that generate income for you. Universities (and colleges in the US), religious organizations, retirement funds, and other institutions put billions in these same kinds of investments to generate income to help them run. Fossil fuel investments are a risk for both investors and the planet, so we’re calling on institutions to divest from these companies.

Divestment is also to end to fossil fuel sponsorship. Fossil fuels companies cultivate sponsorship relationships to help create a ‘social licence to operate’. This contributes to the veneer of legitimacy that enables them to keep expanding operations at a time of climate crisis and to stifle the demands for justice of those communities who live on the frontline of their destructive, polluting operations.

We are an international network of campaigns and campaigners working toward freeing communities from fossil fuels. While each campaign is independently run and may bring different emphases and asks depending on their local context, the majority of campaigns are asking institutions to:

• Immediately freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies;
• Divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within 5 years
• End their fossil fuels sponsorship

Truly Creepy TV Advertisements... Power Past Impossible Pro Oil Propaganda... Trying to sell the idea that burning Fossil Fuels is Wonderful...

It has become obvious that Renewable Energy is our future but... all those people employed in the Fossil Fuel Industry are fighting for their lives to keep the USA purchasing increasing quantities of Oil and Gas... Their jobs depend on a steady flow of oil out of the ground into refineries and into our gas tanks... and all that plastic crap that is polluting the planet... Plastic does not "go away" ever... and we already see giant swirls of floating plastic in the oceans... The People that are employed by Exxon, Shell, BP, Halliburton and Koch have vast pools of money that they are now using to buy advertising talent to convince you and I that it is "cool" to buy gas... and plastic...

an alternative to buying corporate crap is to simply reduce the amount you travel in a car... In my youth it was fashionable to drive all over the USA following The Grateful Dead (an American Rock Band)... really... people (including me) would drive 8 hours or more to attend yet another concert... I'm not making this up... Well, now days traveling places is not really needed anymore... We can travel using the internet to see what's happening on the other side of the planet... It's all this driving around that is causing Climate Change.

Of Course, we all have to drive to work every day... Unless we live close enough to the office to ride the bus... Twice in my lifetime I was able to ride the bus to work. San Jose has great bus/light rail service and so does Eureka, California. One advantage to riding the bus is that you meet people... and become friends with them. In my case I met some women on the bus. I like women and was glad to have their friendship. We would sit in the back and chat for a half an hour every workday. VERY Pleasant...

Quit buying Plastic Crap. I'll say it again... Quit buying Plastic Crap. Just look for an alternative... One thing that is absurd is all the plastic bottles for drinking water... why not drink the water right out of the tap? The answer is that often tap water is poisonous... Well, what we need to do as a society is clean up the water that comes into our homes... really... Remember that showering in poisonous water is as bad for your health as drinking fracked water... and a coke at Taco Bell comes in a plastic cup... why not a waxed paper cup?

another alternative action  is to divest your stock market portfolio of oil and gas investments... Like we divested from tobacco companies... simply call your stockbroker and ask to switch ownership of stock from oil and gas to solar and wind... It's an investment strategy that will win in the long run.


https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/06/american-petroleum-institute-superbowl-ad-oil-power-past-impossible American Petroleum Institute Launches Pro-Oil Ad Campaign... In this latest case, the real question is why API decided to begin lobbying the public directly, rather than using its money and clout to influence politicians who actually create the laws and some of the regulations governing the oil and gas industry. The answer to that question is likely simple: The oil and gas industries are already maximizing the benefits they are receiving from elected leaders, and are now focusing on gaining public approval.

Fossil Fuel Divestment = getting rid of stocks and bonds that are unethical... We can Build a Fossil Fuel Free World by putting money in Solar and Wind Businesses.

https://gofossilfree.org/divestment/what-is-fossil-fuel-divestment/

Divestment is the opposite of an investment – it simply means getting rid of stocks, bonds, or investment funds that are unethical or morally ambiguous.

When you invest your money, you might buy stocks, bonds, or other investments that generate income for you. Universities (and colleges in the US), religious organizations, retirement funds, and other institutions put billions in these same kinds of investments to generate income to help them run. Fossil fuel investments are a risk for both investors and the planet, so we’re calling on institutions to divest from these companies.

Divestment is also to end to fossil fuel sponsorship. Fossil fuels companies cultivate sponsorship relationships to help create a ‘social licence to operate’. This contributes to the veneer of legitimacy that enables them to keep expanding operations at a time of climate crisis and to stifle the demands for justice of those communities who live on the frontline of their destructive, polluting operations.

Great Book: "Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill" by Riki Ott... 28th Amendment - Remove Money From Politics

https://www.amazon.com/Not-One-Drop-Betrayal-Courage/dp/1933392584

Betrayed by oilmen’s promises in the 1970s, the people of Prince William Sound, Alaska, awaken on March 14, 1989, to the nation’s largest oil spill. Not One Drop is an extraordinary tale of ordinary lives ripped apart by disaster and of community healing through building relationships of trust. This story offers critical lessons for a society traumatized by political divides and facing the looming catastrophe of global climate change.

Author Riki Ott, a rare combination of commercial salmon “fisherm’am” and PhD marine biologist, describes firsthand the impacts of oil companies’ broken promises when the Exxon Valdez spills most of its cargo and despoils thousands of miles of shore.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-ropeik/the-28th-amendment-a-new_b_12235494.html

The idea of a 28th amendment to the constitution, to limit the influence of money in politics and return at least a little more control of the federal government to the people, is as popular in the U.S. as our national government is unpopular. 

Trump advocates Fracking... mocks Wind Power... Fracking causes water pollution and severe health problems in people.

Just another example of how Trump is the puppet of Exxon and the fossil fuel industry. No thinking human could be in favor of fracking, they have to be bought.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/trump-putin-would-have-preferred-hillary-shed-decimate-military-and-build