Yahoo Autos Only Trump Could Come Up With A Climate Plan So Terrible, Even Exxon's CEO Thinks It's A Bad Idea
Unless he dies before he takes office, which, considering his age and mental state, isn’t implausible, Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States. Only time will tell just how many millions of lives will be ruined by his disastrous policies of hate and corporate deregulation, but if you need a clue where things are headed, look no further than the fact that the New York Times reports Trump has already lost Exxon Mobile’s CEO Darren Woods with his climate plan.
Trump has already promised to pull out of the Paris climate agreement again, increase drilling and undo any progress that we’ve seen under the Biden administration. Typically, you’d think oil executives would be completely on board with the incoming Trump administration making it easier for them to destroy the environment while making record profits, but it sounds like even Woods understands the downsides of pretending human-caused climate change is nothing more than something the hippies made up. And that means not pulling out of the Paris climate agreement.
“We need a global system for managing global emissions,” he told the Times in an interview. “Trump and his administrations have talked about coming back into government and bringing common sense back into government. I think he could take the same approach in this space.” Woods also claimed governments need to do more to incentivize oil and gas companies to invest more in sustainable energy, saying, “The government role is extremely important and one that they haven’t been successfully fulfilling, quite frankly.”
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Woods went a little deeper, saying he’s against pulling out of the Paris agreement again because it isn’t good “...to have the pendulum swing back and forth as administrations change. I don’t think the stops and starts are the right thing for businesses. It is extremely inefficient. It creates a lot of uncertainty.”
Now, we’re talking about the CEO of an oil company here, so it’s not like he’s some saint when it comes to the climate. He’s not on our side, and he never will be. Still, you have to marvel at the fact that a Republican president-elect could go too far even for a company as evil as Exxon.
“It’s ironic that the major oil companies are not supportive of the ‘drill, baby, drill,’ strategy, nor are their shareholders,” Paul Sankey, an independent analyst, told the WSJ. “They’ve been working very hard to lower their emissions, and the last thing they want is for all the rules and regulations to change again.”
