Word: exxon
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...better way to describe the acts of environmental carnage committed last week in the Persian Gulf, where the air is thick with the smoke from burning oil wells and a wide swath of crude petroleum is fouling the water and devastating wildlife? If these disasters brought to mind the Exxon Valdez, the news of air attacks on nuclear- and chemical-weapons facilities raised the specter of Chernobyl and Bhopal. The environment itself has become both a weapon and a victim...
...gulf fighting started, such energy giants as Chevron, Mobil and Shell pledged to freeze gasoline prices at company-owned stations. (The U.S. average for regular unleaded fuel was $1.24 per gal. as the war broke out, in contrast to $1.01 last August, just before the Iraqi invasion.) Shell, Exxon and other firms later cut their wholesale prices about 5 cents per gal. when crude prices fell...
...Exxon service station along the march route, some protesters applied stickers to a sign and embraced a gas pump. An employee swung at the activist with a squeegee, but failed to make contact...
Although, as Alexander Cockburn says, Saddam Hussein "overplayed the hand allowed by the United States," it is clear whose interests the U.S. government is protecting. Exxon, Texaco, Amoco and friends are the "many Americans" Glaspie referred to, and are the ones who would benefit from a war for control of the world's oil. The people--both American and Iraqi--who would die on the sand have been left out of the reckoning altogether...
Least Popular Industry, Lifetime Achievement Category Big Oil struck a gusher of bad publicity again. Little more than a year after the Exxon Valdez disaster, the industry got blamed by just about everybody for rising gas and fuel prices in the wake of the Persian Gulf crisis. Oilmen denied any profiteering, but several firms posted huge increases in earnings...