Why do we continue to support the American Petroleum Institute? They espouse such id--tic nonsense that makes the whole industry look stupid. Lately they have been railing against electric vehicles. Such fools. How much do we pay them every year?
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I heard Chevron was in some weird green energy experiment resulting in UFOs landing in the CVX Louisiana building lawn
@4htg, You’re information is incorrect. Check your sources again.
3dwq: API is looking for folks just like you!
The US is in the bottom third globally when it comes to environmental protection, sorry.
@3epn, The United States environmental laws are the most stringent in the world and our industry leads on operating itself in the cleanest and safest manner. Other countries don’t take these standards as seriously. Now as for Climate Change, that’s the biggest hoax ever played and its sole purpose is wealth redistribution and control of the human race. It is a false science and has been shown in many ways to be a weak theory. The propagators of this hoax are capitalizing on an anomaly blip on the geological time clock to pull the wool over the eyes of the misguided and uneducated population with climate mumbo jumbo with the complicity of wealthy elitist groups, corrupt governments and politicians, and left-wing media conglomerates.
The highways are great for truckers, mostly. They never should have been built. Rail is more efficient.
@2hlk don't know what source you are using for that, but, its wrong and you are misleading.
The original question was: Would gasoline cars have taken off without federal funding for roads, highways and gas stations?
Lets ignore the question of federal funding for gas stations, since... that isn't and wasn't a thing.
The Interstate Highway system was constructed with gas tax money. Granted, bonds were floated initially, but gas taxes paid the whole thing off (with interest) as the system achieved significant completion in the early 80s. During this period, gasoline cars had taken off.
In fact the highway trust fund was so flush with cash that gas tax revenues were raided in the early 90s for the general fund. In a way you can say there is a debt owed to road users, a fact that is conveniently ignored when generalizations about the current state of the gas tax and highway funding are made.
"We are an OIL and GAS company", very true, but that does not mean we need to be dishonest. Man-make climate change is real and there needs to be a long-term transition away from burning fossils, but today these fuels power most of our economy (simple reality). There are things we can do today (cap methane releases) and we can be a major part of tomorrow's energy solutions, but spreading falsehoods in the hopes of a short-term pause in this progression does not change reality and simply makes us look evil. We need to be careful lest we lose all credibility in the search for tomorrow's answers.
We are an OIL and GAS company. This is industry we are in. Don’t forget that one little detail.
Any article that uses the word “disinformation” is propaganda that was written by left wing special interest groups. API has made rational data-driven arguments which the left cannot dispute so they resort to ad-hominem attacks. Its right out of their playbook.
I happen to know she also controls Zalenmsky. And United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres says her control of API is "incompatible with human survival" (a direct quote).
RM is a member of Opus Dei, and they are close to global mind control. ChatGPT is part of their mastermind. MW is just one of her puppets. She controls API through him. I cannot disclose my source, but it comes from highly placed security clearance. See all the links below.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/19/big-oil-climate-crisis-lobby-group-api
https://climatepower.us/resources/api-exposed-hypocrisy-on-climate-action/
So MW is talking out of one side of his mouth at Chevron, screeching about the profitable joys of renewables, and then trolling and spewing lies via API. What a l o s e r .
https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2022/02/02/chevron-chairman-and-ceo-mike-wirth-elected-chairman-of-api-board
MW is the API Board Chairman
1epk: except you provide another half truth: “general taxes paid by all taxpayers cover nearly as much of the cost of building and maintaining highways as the gas tax and other fees paid by drivers”. This points to the problem with API, when you half lie half the time no one believes anything you say. API’s BS makes folks question even the good our industry does in this world.
I heard from someone in the know that RM is Chairman of Board at API. That explains a LOT. We should definatley stop supporting and leave API.
Maybe MW can follow in the footsteps of DjO and retire from CVX to a cushy roll at API to rant against renewables and bribe congress for more oil handouts.
@1ogs+1lxaS5em the "federal subsidies" for roads are paid for by the gas tax.
Funny when you think about how many subsidies this industry has received in the past. Would gasoline cars have taken off without federal funding for roads, highways and gas stations?
MW needs to wake up and dump API! It makes him look like a complete I d I o T.
API statements below support all of the above. Lets all technologies serve customers and compete in marketplace. Govt should not pick winners/losers nor preferentially support one over anohter. This post and some of the comments are completely uninformed.
When API pushes unreasonable nonsense it hurts the credibility of the whole industry. The truth is hydrocarbons supply such a high percent of the worlds energy we simply do not need this type of BS. We need “all of the above” in our energy mix!
During the Trump administration, API aggressively supported the rollback of regulations on emissions of methane, a highly potent heat-trapping gas. They rewarded members of Congress who supported Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement with campaign contributions and fought state-level climate-friendly energy policies across the country. Meanwhile, API launched a multi-million dollar “Energy for Progress” public relations campaign that, with astonishing hubris, profiled its member companies as climate heroes “leading the world in cutting greenhouse gas emissions
“API opposes government intervention in the markets to pick winners and losers because it creates an un-level playing field. … Subsidies such as federal and state income tax credits for the purchase of electric vehicles and tax credits for the installation of electric charging infrastructure distort free markets and are detrimental to taxpayers and the consuming public. In fact, electric vehicle incentive programs have had a ‘reverse Robin Hood’ effect. According to a study done by University of California Berkeley faculty, clean energy ‘tax expenditures have gone predominantly to higher-income Americans. … The most extreme is the program aimed at electric vehicles, where we find that the top income quintile has received about 90% of all credits.”
Electric vehicles have many shortcomings. Even now I am seeing the die-hard Tesla types trading in to switch to gas.
API is 100% right.
Can you post us a link to see the API railing?
No matter what you think of them, as long as you work in the oil and gas industry, API is your friend.