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PolluterWatch Director and Greenpeace USA Research Director Kert Davies sent the following letter today to American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard asking him to respond to two recent news articles that raise serious questions about government handouts for dirty industry companies and polluter executives’ true positions on clean energy.
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PolluterWatch
702 H Street, NW, Suite 300
Washington DC, 20001
Jack Gerard
American Petroleum Institute
1220 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005-4070
Dear Mr. Gerard,
Last week the Energy and Environment News ran an article on their website entitled “Oil Execs Chortle as Obama Admin Promotes Renewables,” quoting oil executives, specifically the Chairman of ConocoPhilips and the CEO of SaudiAramco, scoffing at renewable energy technologies as reliable replacements for oil, gas and coal in the global economy.
In a separate article last week entitled “Governments appear to spend $500 billion a year to subsidize fossil fuels,” Energy and Environment News reported on a forthcoming G-20 report revealing that governments worldwide may spend as much as $500 billion a year in subsidies to prop up the same fossil fuel companies whose executives “chortle” at the renewable energy technologies that compete with their products.
As the President of the American Petroleum Institute (API), an organization devoted to promoting continued oil consumption, I hope you will answer the following questions on behalf of the companies you represent:
I hope you agree that American taxpayers deserve answers to these important questions. Additionally, I hope you will address the seemingly ironic “chortling” by oil executives who criticize renewable energy subsidies while continuing to lobby for more government handouts.
Finally, I hope you will also explain the American oil industry’s plan to wean itself off of government subsidies and then turn its wealth and technological know-how to developing the clean, renewable energy solutions we need to fight global warming, improve national security, decrease foreign debt and declare our independence from dirty fossil fuels.
Respectfully,
Kert Davies
Greenpeace
Director, PolluterWatch
Exxon Mobil used to say that it stopped funding fringe groups and "unthinking tanks" that denied the overwhelming evidence behind global warming and pushed out thousands of non-credible, non-sourced, industry-funded and unscientific research to raise doubts about climate change.
But whoops! New evidence has appeared that Exxon is in fact dumping money into these "research institutes."
The Independent reports that "anti-climate change think-tanks such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the US and the International Policy Network in the UK have received grants totaling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the multinational energy company ExxonMobil."
So, what say you, Exxon?
ExxonMobil's response? "We have the same concerns as people everywhere—and that is how to provide the world with the energy it needs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions," the company said in a statement to the Independent. Yes, ExxonMobil, the fossil fuel-giant, is just like "people everywhere."
Yep, I'm sure people everywhere made a $19.3 billion profit last year.