Anyone buying Exxon/Mobil should be boiled in oil!

[ProudDad]

"Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study"

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2004397,00.html

[Buzz Clik]

1. Perhaps they should be slow roasted by a solar collector...

or beaten to death by windmill blades...

or drowned in the ocean tides...

or given a toxic dose of biofuels.

Boiled in oil is soooo pre-peak petroleum.

[demnan]

2. Unfortunately a lot of us are

If you have a 401K you probably have stock in Exxon-Mobile without even realizing it. Another thing, if all the stockholders were to demand an end to this kind of behavior, wouldn't they have to comply?

I don't know myself.

[SCantiGOP]

5. nope

I was in college in the late 60s/early 70s when the Viet Nam protests were hot. In one class, a professor was debunking the idea that shareholders 'own' and control a company. The big target then was Dow Chemical, who made napalm among other war-related items. He said an annual stockholders meeting could go like this. Someone from the floor (there would be thousands there if everyone attended) would make a resolution that Dow no longer contract with the Defense Department. Every one of the thousands on the floor shout "Aye." When asked if anyone is opposed, 5 men sitting to one side raise their hands, and the motion is defeated. In addition to the stock owned by company officers, 5 institutions held a majority of the stock.

[Warpy]

3. That's a bit harsh

but I do believe most folks who have brand loyalty to any gasoline over McGas at a Brand X station should be wearing dunce caps.

[damntexdem]

7. I have a brand loyalty: Citgo.

Support Hugo and buy Venezuelan!

[Warpy]

8. Careful, Hugo's becoming more autocratic every day

We may be seeing a classic case of power corrupting.

They don't sell Citgo in NM, so I stick to McGas.

[ProudDad]

9. I was

Unfortunately, the only Citgo gas available around here was at 7/11 and they copped out on us...

The other problem is that the "no-name" brands buy their gas from the majors so it's sometimes hard to know whose gas you're buying unless the station is "branded".

[Bjornsdotter]

4. Pun intended? n/t

[damntexdem]

6. No, no! That's not the way to do it!

Too much chance that the boiling oil will be supplied by Exxon/Mobil.

Boil them in biodiesel! ;-)