Bush Names Exxon Chief to Chart America’s Energy Future

[Emit]

Even for an administration dedicated to putting industry lobbyists in charge of the very agencies they have devoted their careers to undermining (coal and oil lobbyist J. Stephen Griles as Deputy Secretary of the Interior is one of dozens of examples), President Bush has recently outdone himself. He has named Lee Raymond, the retired chief of ExxonMobil, to head a key study to help America chart a cleaner course for our energy needs. Raymond currently chairs the National Petroleum Council (NPC), one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington.

Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman says the study will address the supply and demand of oil as well as "…assess the potential contribution of conservation, efficiency, alternative energy sources, and technology advances" and determine "the potential long term impact of alternative energies that are plentiful, affordable, reliable and transportable."

Energy Department Under Secretary David Garman, added that the NPC is "well qualified to provide a balanced and informed perspective on strategies and action affecting the energy future for both the U.S. and for every country on earth."

Environmentalists are outraged about the appointment of Lee Raymond. During his long tenure at ExxonMobil, the company spent $19 million on front groups designed to discredit the science on global warming. It also resisted funding clean energy alternatives and lobbied aggressively to drill in the Arctic Refuge.

In a Wall Street Journal article on June 14, 2005, Mr. Raymond said, "it's yet to be shown how much of this (global warming) is really related to the activities of man."

http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000322.php

[Lasher]

1. Not a very good choice of henhouse guards (EOM)

[Judi Lynn]

2. It just gets worse, and worse, doesn't it? Lee Raymond, yet!

From last year:

Boycott Seeks to Reform ExxonMobil's Environmental Actions

WASHINGTON, DC, July 13, 2005 (ENS) - Changing ExxonMobil’s corporate behavior is the mission of a new environmental campaign called ExxposeExxon.com. Calling for a boycott of the company's products, stocks, and workforce, campaigners from 12 of America’s largest public interest and environmental groups showed up outside ExxonMobil service stations nationwide Tuesday.

"For years, ExxonMobil has intentionally put its own profits above a clean environment and the health of America’s families. As a result, we are asking all Americans not to accept a new job at ExxonMobil, invest in the company, or to buy ExxonMobil’s gas and products," stated the ExxposeExxon coalition in a letter sent Tuesday to ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond at the company's Irving, Texas headquarters.

Lee Raymond is chairman and chief executive officer of ExxonMobil. Prior to the merger of Exxon and Mobil on November 30, 1999, he was chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Corporation.

The ExxposeExxon campaign began campaigning yesterday in more than 50 cities, including Washington, DC, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Des Moines, Honolulu, New York, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia. The coalition will work through the Internet, through the news media, through door-to-door contact, bumper stickers and t-shirts.

The campaigners object because the corporation is lobbying Congress to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling. They point out that ExxonMobil is the only oil company remaining in Arctic Power, the single-issue group lobbying to open the Arctic Refuge to drilling.

In a response to the boycott on its website, ExxonMobil said Tuesday the company supports "responsible" development of the Arctic refuge.
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http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2005/2005-07-13-02.asp



Raymond
_Bush couldn't possibly show more contempt for his country, and his planet. Undoubtedly the most obnoxious man in the world.

[symbolman]

5. If that isn't FAT BASTARD

from Austin Powers I'll eat my FOLEY..

Jesus Christ, this is so far beyond the pale as to be almost unbelieveable. it feels like a bizarre nightmare, WHERE THE HELL IS MY COUNTRY?

THis guy needs to have an apple in his mouth and be FED to the POOR of this nation, they could all eat for a DAY nationwide..

LOOK at that face, can't this fucker AFFORD A DOCTOR? He looks like a Birth Defect and is RICH as hell.

Nightmare, Horrors.

THank god for the Boycotters, they will have my full support! Thanks for posting that, should make it it's old thread, please?

[Emit]

6. Tx for posting this.

Gggrrr!

[Erika]

3. How regretful W just told Americans to go get f-----

And to hell with the environment. How very sad.

[aquart]

4. Takes your breath away, doesn't it?

Basically, George wants us all dead.

[spanone]

7. More reason to vote against the evil bastards.