Hillary Clinton’s Oily Exxon Connections

[Octafish]

Anyone on tee vee ever mention when Jimmy Carter wanted to wean the nation from fossil fuels?

Hillary Clinton’s Oily Exxon Connections

Bernie Sanders has hammered Hillary Clinton for her connections to fossil fuels—a charge she has wholeheartedly rejected. However, ExxonMobil’s climate scandal could again bring her ties to Big Oil to the forefront at an inconvenient time.

by Betsy Woodruff
The Daily Beast, May 10, 2016

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At issue, as Politico reported on Monday, is whether Exxon executives knowingly suppressed information about fossil fuels’ contribution to climate change—and whether the company should face legal consequences the way tobacco corporations did.

Attorneys general in New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands have subpoenaed corporate communications. The efforts present “the biggest existential threat the company has faced in decades,” Politico wrote.

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But Clinton hasn’t been silent on public policy issues involving Exxon. When an activist with 350.org pressed her on the subject last October—after Bernie Sanders and then-competitor Martin O’Malley took the same position—she voiced support for a Department of Justice investigation of ExxonMobil. But that won’t be enough to quell some environmental activists’ doubts, especially given her family foundation’s openness to Exxon’s largesse.

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Contributing to the foundation isn’t the only way Exxon has financially supported the Clintons. Ursula Burns, a member of the company’s board of directors, gave the maximum contribution of $5,400 to Clinton’s campaign—making Clinton one of a very small number of Democratic candidates to get any financial support from an ExxonMobil board member.

More significantly, in terms of cash, only three Republican presidential candidates got more money from the oil and gas industry as a whole than Clinton did, according to OpenSecrets. And, as Politico noted, the corporation’s senior lobbyist Theresa Fariello is a Clinton bundler. GreenPeace has also dinged Clinton for the fact that at least seven Exxon lobbyists bundle contributions for her campaign.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/10/hillary-clinton-s-oily-exxon-connections.html

Bad Astronomy reported that the CO2 has hit 400 ppm.

[Yurovsky]

1. But everybody else does it, so it's OK...

and if Bernie puts gas in his car, he's supporting Big Oil too!

Expect much of the same as the HRC apologists respond to yet another example of her selling out to interests that are diametrically opposed to progressive values.

[Octafish]

4. We could have rebuilt the energy grid with 100% renewable systems for the cost of the 2nd Iraq War.

Of course, this would impact those holding petroleum industry stocks, so we must be very very careful to tread softly...

For the Price of the Iraq War, The U.S. Could Have a 100% Renewable Power System

By Washington's Blog
Global Research, April 11, 2013

What Are We Choosing for Our Future?

Wind energy expert Paul Gipe reported this week that – for the amount spent on the Iraq war – the U.S. could be generating 40%-60% of its electricity with renewable energy:

Disregarding the human cost, and disregarding our “other” war in Afghanistan, how much renewable energy could we have built with the money we spent? How far along the road toward the renewable energy transition could we have traveled?

The answer: shockingly far.

Cost of the Iraq War

The war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion through fiscal year 2013, according to Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. That’s trillion, with a “t”. Including future costs for veteran’s care, and so on, raises the cost to $2.2 trillion.

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If we had invested the $2.2 trillion in wind and solar, the US would be generating 21% of its electricity with renewable energy. If we had invested the $3.9 trillion that the war in Iraq will ultimately cost, we would generate nearly 40% of our electricity with new renewables. Combined with the 10% of supply from existing hydroelectricity, the US could have surpassed 50% of total renewables in supply.

However, this is a conservative estimate. If we include the reasonable assumptions suggested by Robert Freehling, the contribution by renewables would be even greater.

Freehling’s assumptions raise to as much as 60% the nation’s lost potential contribution by new renewables to US electricity supply by going to war in Iraq. With the addition of existing hydroelectric generation, the opportunity to develop as much as 70% of our nation’s electricity with renewable energy was lost.

And unlike the war in Iraq, which is an expense, the development of renewable energy instead of war would have been an investment in infrastructure at home that would have paid dividends to American citizens for decades to come.

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/for-the-price-of-the-iraq-war-the-u-s-could-have-a-100-renewable-power-system/5330881

Thanks to capital's saptraps, our "capitalist system" has become a form of slavery for the masses. I am most grateful to know so many are not afraid to see it for what it is, Yurovsky.

[Yurovsky]

6. Entrenched forces are inherently opposed to change...

which is why I react pretty negatively when I'm told that we need to proceed slowly or that I'm not being realistic. That's just a nice way of saying STFU and accept the status quo ad infinitum.

Meanwhile ExxonMobil & its allies continue to make bank...

[MisterP]

7. but 9-11!

[bobthedrummer]

2. A George Schultz/Casper Weinberger/Henry Kissinger/Koch/Bechtel/Bush/DLC K&R, Sir!

[jwirr]

3. +1

[Octafish]

5. Your Military Industrial Complex at Work

On Dec. 8, 1992, after George Herbert Walker Bush was defeated at the polls by Bill Clinton with an assist from Ross Perot, he ordered the U.S. military into Somalia. Operation RESTORE HOPE was sold at the time as a "Humanitarian Mission," a phrase rarely used in conjunction with anything the guy did as president, as vice-president, as a Congressman from Texas or in his time at CIA for anyone other than his cronies and partners in crime.



What Poppy Bush's last new mission in Somalia did accomplish was to leave a crisis -- a huge dog turd in a burning bag of a crisis -- on the welcome mat at the front door of the White House for incoming President Bill Clinton. After that, things got off on the "right foot," from peace and prosperity for all to healthcare for the public and continued welfare for the wealthy. And the humanitarian mission? It quickly devolved into a fiasco of the first order, culminating in the disaster seared into the public consciousness as "Black Hawk Down."

Oh. Not that it's on tee vee or anything where millions might see it, but we're still in Somalia and just getting into a lot of other places...for the, um, extraction industries.