The following is a very sorry advertisement by ExxonMobil.
It was printed in the usual, well paid for, quarter page of the OP-ED section of the New York Times, reserved mainly for the fossil fuels industry, the same day, January 19, 2006, as the paper had a news article describing how six previous heads of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA Administrators) were describing the present unbelievably counter-producting philosophy that governs that agency. We put this on the “Cartoon” button of www.SustainabilTank.info because we find it laughable how in this day and age ExxonMobil still thinks that energy is a synonym of petroleum, and believes that we are so gullible that we will buy their argument.

Further, they think that if they tell us that they are investing more in exploration then their corporation’s earnings, we will believe them - perhaps we will accept their contention that they spent only $2 billion, out of what they say were $66 billion, in the years 2000-2004 in the Middle East and we shall believe that this is a sign of responsibility when it comes to national security. What about the $2 trillion of military expenditures so they can continue to have their obscene profits, and the tremendous pay to their officers?

They say that “Today’s energy industry earnings are important for meeting tomorrow’s energy needs” by “Planting” these profits - now that gave me a good laugh and then a tear. Those profits seem also to be re-invested in Washington, and in the media, so that it will be very difficult to dislodge them from their power position before Petrocollapse hits us for real.

Published in the New York Times (January 19, 2006)