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am_Unition  ·  901 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The World Is Conspiring to Make Driving Suck More

I see you are correct. I did use a bit of hyperbole.

But still, the most quarterly profit since 2014, and the fastest growth rate in 12 years. Despite a couple periods of declining profits, Exxon always managed to be in the black by several tens of billions of dollars every year. I know oil and gas is far from the only profitable sector subsidized by the government, but it's probably the sector most hell-bent on lobbying Congress while knowingly destroying the environment.

As is too common the case, there is no sense in debating this if you still don't believe in global warming. Do you now subscribe to the "Not only is it real, it's so cataclysmic that it'd cost too much to address, better do nothing" argument?

Please don't make me re-post the fusion funding plot again, btw. We could have easily funded fusion, perhaps two or three times over, with Exxon's last 12 years of profits alone. Maybe they didn't like the pitch?