This morning oil giant ExxonMobil announced its record-breaking profits for 2005 to the public -- $36.13 billion! That is the largest profit ever recorded by any corporation anywhere.
In response, the ExxposeExxon.com campaign has created a short, funny video lampooning Exxon's unfortunate combination of huge profits and tiny social conscience.
Click the link to check it out: http://www.ExxposeExxon.com/movie (and don't forget to turn on your speakers!)
Nice one. Environmentalist son will love it!
if i had my way i would blow them up-in an environmentally friendly way of course.
grrrrrrrrrrrr.
kitty
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Money talks :( but most of us are to blame running to cars etc
the best you can do is the best you can do...we are lucky enough to be able to afford a 'smart'we chose it after years of 'old bangers' after comparing how much juice an old banger used compared with the cost of a new car=smart does 60 to the gallon....600cc so half the road tax....its 3 years old now and still as efficient-goes like the proverbial too...
i do know how lucky we are that we have the choice-but we are by no means well off and had to do without other stuff to afford it...life choices....havent had..and dont need..a holiday for the last 25 years or so...and wouldn't fly anywhere unless i was hog-tied and dragged!
i think we all over consume but everyone can make a little difference i think....
lol!just read this bnack but i shall still post it!
'saint' kitty!!!!!!
I think you mean 'running TWO cars' there Tel.
Running to cars, is just a way of reaching your car more quickly :)
Nit picker, John....and actually, 'running to cars' means running towards more than one car.
:-*
::)but it is VITAL you get the grammar totally correct.... ::)
while we are TOTALLY off topic....*sigh*love your walking sticks kk...
:o oops, eats shoots and leaves :)
you could change your moniker to 'truss', john...'cept it has ....other.....er.....connotations! ;D
Well we are very virtuous, :D because we don't own a single car, and haven't had one for the past 14 years. Mind you, people look at us as though we are really eccentric and can't imagine how we can manage without one. We have got quite good public transport in the North East and I get a taxi home with my weekly grocery shop so we do okay. We do miss out on going to garden centres and nurseries and I would love to go up the coast and into the country more often, but we survive.
I do worry about global warming and it seems crazy that it is not taken more seriously. It seems inevitable that it will catch up with us all seriously one day. I know this is going off track a little but what I don't understand is why there aren't more eco friendly regulations in place in house building. Surely, each house built now should have solar panels and as many energy saving measures as possible built into it. I hate to see big oil company's profit so much and think we should have an eco tax in place to help clean up all the damage done by them. busy_lizzie
I have concerns about the car culture in the UK, but am being exposed to regulations going mad - the new green policy in Preston ( may be elsewhere) is that new office buildings are built with one car parking space to four "seats". On the face of it, a sensible option. However, the building we will be using is on a business park on brownfield land beside the M6 and a long way from residential areas. Most of the people who will work in this new support centre will be coming from the opposite end of the town ( affordable house prices etc), and the buses will run from the town centre park & ride. Sooo, lots of people are expected to drive into Preston to the car park, then get bussed out to the outskirts, then at home time, get bussed back into town and drive out through the massive congestion. This will also add so much time to their journey. As it's so close to the motorway, having sufficient parking on site would actually reduce the traffic problem in town, and as people will be spending less time in queues, will overall I'd guess, have less impact.
Of course we'll lose staff and have to move the jobs offshore to keep the service going. Ho hum. Must remember to stop thinking......
Rant over