Oh look, another CEO not in touch with reality trying to gaslight the general public.

"customers weren’t willing to pay for the added cost of cleaner fossil fuels." says CEO of company that made $36 billion in profits last year.

Meanwhile...

ExxonMobil is suing investors who want faster climate action

But sure, the lack of climate action is the public's fault and Exxon would love to help but has its hands tied.

"We totally would have saved the climate if you had only paid us enough." Bitch, please.

The trillions the oil industry has earned over the years were not enough?
You had enough money, you had the knowledge of the problem and what you could do to fix it and you had enough time to change your strategy from lieing and denying.

The only thing you didn't have was the will to give up a single cent to help clean up the damage you have done.

Imagine what could have been done with half of the 52 trillion the oil and gas industry earned in the last 50 years (that's without coal, even). Imagine how far we could have developed renewable energy sources. What we could have achieved with carbon capture. What could be done today if the fossil industries propaganda hadn't turned climate change into a question of political opinions.

Fuck that guy. He and his ilk created this mess and they got fat of it. He doesn't get to shift blame.

There is no such thing as 'cleaner fossil fuels'.. They're all dirty, polluting, and causing climate change. That language is just intentional misdirection.

Well, if you want to get suuuuuper technical, he's right. The general public is responsible for not tearing down every single Exxon gas station brick by brick, ripping up the roads and rails to the refineries, and dragging both him and the board of executives before an angry mob to answer for their choices. Because, you know, that is technically always a possibility.

But I don't know that I'd be going around reminding people of that if I were him. Weird flex, but I guess that's his choice.

Ahh I see we’ve reached the ‘okay so we did do it, but it’s not our fault’ stage

Phase 1: It's not happening at all

Phase 2: It's happening, but it's a natural process

Phase 3: Ok, it's happening and it's your fault

Phase 4: ???

Had to double check it’s not an article from The Onion…

sells nuclear bomb to Joe down the street for massive profits

"Hey, don't blame me for Kentucky exploding that's all on Joe"

Is it me or are rich people TRYING to get beheaded lately?

“So we’ve got to find a way to get the cost down to grow the utility of the solution"

Yes. Change the way costs are assigned in the economic system with a heavy bias against pollutants.

"Cleaner Fossil Fuels" my arse. There's no such thing.

And in terms of money, are Exxon really expecting us to believe that they couldn't possibly shoulder the bill for even attempting to clean up the mess they're actively causing?

Ha. I forgot the previous CEO of Exxon was “Sleepy” Rex Tillerson, former Secretary of State who got fired by tweet while in the shitter.

respectfully, how is it our fault that oil, that has been around for more longer hence it is more, cheaper than renewable alternatives?

I'd say we should burn some company property. But that would add carbon to the atmosphere. CEOs would have such a minimal impact though, I think we can squeeze that in.

You know the problem we created and didn't provide a single option to fix? Well, it's your fault for not fixing out mess!

My bad. Keep putting off those guillotine plans.

"Yes, the government pays us to develop product and then the customers pay us for that product. And you're right, the government does pay us to create machines that can undo the unmitigated disaster created by our product, but who shall pay us to flip the switch that turns the machine on? YOU? I think not, you couldn't afford it! Just for that, I'm not even going to let you look at the machine, which totally exists... You're the liar!"

They're deflecting, but not entirely wrong. Most people rather want to keep their comfortable status quo, than being directly affected by actually effective climate actions. Otherwise people would behave and vote differently. You can't always blame things on the lack of policies when you willingly vote for the people upholding the status quo instead of those who actually want to do something against it. You can see how much resistance there is whenever there's even the slightest bit of climate related policy tried to get shoved through parliaments.

Guess we better fix it then, where's my pitchfork?

Gulag

every fossil fuel is converting carbon chains into a gaseous carbon oxide. Coal, oil, gasoline, candle wax, logs, you can burn diamonds and graphite if you want. It's like looking for a radiation free source of nuclear energy.

That bit of victim blaming sounds like an admission of liability to me.

nice way to cover your own fat, greedy asses, while you fly around in your private jets

The pusher is telling the junkies that it's their fault.

He's correct (and counting on public apathy).