Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change

Woods argued the “dirty secret” is that customers weren’t willing to pay for the added cost of cleaner fossil fuels.

In his comments Tuesday, Woods argued the “dirty secret” is that customers weren’t willing to pay for the added cost of cleaner fossil fuels.

Referring to carbon capture, Woods said Exxon has “tabled proposals” with governments “to get out there and start down this path using existing technology.”

“People can’t afford it, and governments around the world rightly know that their constituents will have real concerns,” he added.

“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.”

For example, he said Exxon “could, today, make sustainable aviation fuel for the airline business. But the airline companies can’t afford to pay.”

aLoggerNamedRay,

Gulag

AceFuzzLord,

You know the problem we created and didn’t provide a single option to fix? Well, it’s your fault for not fixing out mess!

yokonzo,

Is it me or are rich people TRYING to get beheaded lately?

foggianism,

Phase 1: It’s not happening at all

Phase 2: It’s happening, but it’s a natural process

Phase 3: Ok, it’s happening and it’s your fault

Phase 4: ???

Birdie,

You deserve it.

N_Crow,
@N_Crow@leminal.space avatar

I’d say we should burn some company property. But that would add carbon to the atmosphere. CEOs would have such a minimal impact though, I think we can squeeze that in.

Pyr_Pressure,

sells nuclear bomb to Joe down the street for massive profits

“Hey, don’t blame me for Kentucky exploding that’s all on Joe”

Th4tGuyII,

"Cleaner Fossil Fuels" my arse. There's no such thing.

And in terms of money, are Exxon really expecting us to believe that they couldn't possibly shoulder the bill for even attempting to clean up the mess they're actively causing?

Phil_in_here,

I’m not a scientist, I don’t know one way or the other if there are “cleaner” fossil fuels. But I believe the Exxon CEO when he claims there are.

Hanlon’s Razor doesn’t apply to CEOs. It’s always 100% conscious malicious choices.

While it’s easy to believe Exxon would make up “we could have done it cleaner but it cost more than the market would bear” its much more in tune with big oil’s real strategy of “we absolutely knew about it and beyond doing nothing, we actively suppressed action about it and spent a lot of money ensuring no one else would too.”

homesweethomeMrL,

Ha. I forgot the previous CEO of Exxon was “Sleepy” Rex Tillerson, former Secretary of State who got fired by tweet while in the shitter.

casmael,

Ahh I see we’ve reached the ‘okay so we did do it, but it’s not our fault’ stage

blazera,

every fossil fuel is converting carbon chains into a gaseous carbon oxide. Coal, oil, gasoline, candle wax, logs, you can burn diamonds and graphite if you want. It's like looking for a radiation free source of nuclear energy.

SlopppyEngineer,

“So we’ve got to find a way to get the cost down to grow the utility of the solution"

Yes. Change the way costs are assigned in the economic system with a heavy bias against pollutants.

Jaysyn,
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

That bit of victim blaming sounds like an admission of liability to me.

DMBFFF,
@DMBFFF@lemmy.world avatar

The pusher is telling the junkies that it’s their fault.

He’s correct (and counting on public apathy).

casmael,

What?

FartsWithAnAccent,
@FartsWithAnAccent@kbin.social avatar

Guess we better fix it then, where's my pitchfork?

conditional_soup,

Well, if you want to get suuuuuper technical, he’s right. The general public is responsible for not tearing down every single Exxon gas station brick by brick, ripping up the roads and rails to the refineries, and dragging both him and the board of executives before an angry mob to answer for their choices. Because, you know, that is technically always a possibility.

But I don’t know that I’d be going around reminding people of that if I were him. Weird flex, but I guess that’s his choice.

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