“we’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions,” Woods told Fortune
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“Does anyone want to step up to pay?” No, I was thinking we could just tax the shit out of rich assholes like this empty suit and use that money.
Far be it from me to tell a Lemmy mob not to eat an oil exec, but wow that’s not even close to what the article says.
“So we’ve got to find a way to get the cost down to grow the utility of the solution, and make it more available and more affordable so that you can begin the [clean energy] transition.”
As per the article, this exec is saying the exact opposite of “it’s too late to transition to clean energy so we might as well not bother.” He’s saying “it’s taking too long because it’s too expensive, so we need to focus on making it cheaper so we can get there faster.”
Is he lying about wanting to hasten the transition to clean energy? Maybe.
Are there other reasons that he is a fiend that must be eaten by the working class? Likely. Article hints at some of them.
But wow this take is off base. These guys do a good enough job making themselves look bad, we don’t have to also make stuff up.
This kinda lines up with propaganda I’ve been seeing the past couple years (from the likes of Peter Theil and Alex Epstein). They argue that we should be extracting and using fossil fuels as fast as possible. The (stupid, fucked up, wishful thinking) idea is that cheap energy drives human development and technological solutions to climate change.
I mean he also blames the people using electricity and says they need to pay more to cover the carbon offset costs which sounds a lot like he’s looking for an excuse to raise prices and push governmental fees on consumers more directly in this same speech.
I read through the article and think him saying it’s too late is like the barely visible take when he’s flashing a neon sign of “I’m not cutting down production and you fuckers are gonna pay for it!” And blaming governments for not wanting to pay for company infrastructure changes is hilarious when they lobby to make it so there is no more government insight anywhere else but covering the costs they don’t want to pay.
He’s definitely on the list but yeah title and thing OP tried to pull from this is so not the worst part of it.
Yeah, exactly-- There’s plenty of oil exec bullshit right there in the article, but I was surprised to learn that he was actually talking about clean energy as an important thing to hurry toward, and investing large sums in carbon capture and stuff. A far cry from cartoonish climate denialism and trying to stop decarbonization.
I saw another post on the same article that had a title like “oil exec tells the public that it’s their responsibility to foot the bill for clean energy…” And while I think that’s lacking a little nuance, it’s at least one area (of several!) that represents an actual claim that deserves criticism.
“So we’ve got to find a way to get the cost down to grow the utility of the solution”
As if they don’t have a significant sum of all the worlds money. If its too expensive they should be eating all the cost, since they are the ones that put us in this mess, knowingly. They shouldn’t be complaining that it costs too much. Maybe instead of wasting all that money lobbying against climate science, they could have put all that money into decarb and renewables. We are lightyears behind where we could be and why? Because they lied about what they knew and had to keep lying about it and maintaining the narrative that there is no problem. Can’t get anybody to believe that anymore so now they say they need more time and money and its just too hard guys. No excuses for these vampires.
It’s taking too long because the fossil fuel industry is heavily subsidized creating the appearance of a stronger cost advantage for fossil fuels than actually exists, which is the kind of bullshit Exxon-Mobil CEO is responsible for.
So the implication here is that we should just continue to die? Lmao these fucks.
It’s too late for him and his family and everyone who’s ever shared a table with him or has his private phone number to continue existing with the same number of limbs and sensory organs too.
I like your moxy
“Yeah, just shut the fuck up and give more money, you whining little shits. I’ve got a survival bunker to build. They aren’t cheap you know. “
Seize the assets of the shareholders and stop the oil pumps.
Not the shareholders! 😱
/s
Reminds me of that saying choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. Their incentive is to do the job just good enough and with the least amount of effort. The shareholders incentive here is make money. So we need to make Fossil fuel business illegal. The shareholders still want to make money. They’ll find an alternative way to do so. OH HEY LOOK! No longer reliant on fossil fuels?
shock the industry so hard the stonks guys just go elsewhere.
“ohhh, sorry, the correct answer was last Wednesday.”
Wasn’t there recently an article from TheOnion or such that said this exact thing? Wild how little fucks these monsters give about anyone but themselves.
You might be thinking of the classic Toles cartoon
Wasn’t that one, but also applies. Bit sad to know there are multiple of these…
THERE WAS A MEME ABOUT THIS RECENTLY!!! THERE WAS A MEME!!
It was a few panels, but nearly said exactly the same thing as title.
it was different than the 1 image already posted here.
Denied, Delayed, Disinformed successfully!
CEO, “Now, board of directors, how much bonus are you paying me.”
To the people talking of guillotines and woodchippers, I think what you’re really looking for is the Brazen Bull of Phalaris. So appropriate on so many levels.
Or that thing with the honey and the flies
Ah, so we’ve finally hit the end point of The Slow Breakup
If its too late then it’s time for retaliation against those who put us in this mess in the first place.
This guy belongs in jail.
The guy belongs drawn and quartered
Nah, I think he’ll have lots of fun in a 2x2 jail cell with unhealthy doses of CO2 and CO for the rest of his life.
Until he gets Epstein’d to a private island
It certainly isn’t too late for that “human” to feel the warmth of a rope around its neck.
When are these murderers gonna go to jail ?
