Word: mobilize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost intact, the Senate dismembered it and no one can now predict what compromise may emerge from the conference committee. Meanwhile, businessmen apprehensively note that polls indicate that Carter has yet to convince the public that there is any energy crisis at all. Says Herbert Schmertz, vice president of Mobil Oil Corp.: "There is no consensus in this country for any energy policy, including ours...
...into the worst economic downturn since the 1930s, and such cynical profit taking gave the oil companies a black eye. Few can forget how, in their annual reports for 1974, the oil companies showed hefty increases in their profits over the preceding year: Exxon up 28.6%, Gulf up 33%, Mobil...
...also rather indirect, at least in the sense that the giant gas producers, which are also the big oil producers -Exxon, Texaco, Standard Oil of Indiana, Mobil and Gulf-struck an above-the-battle pose and rarely got down into the pit themselves. Said David Foster, executive vice president of the Natural Gas Supply Committee, the producer-sponsored lobby that operates on an annual budget of $500,000 to $750,000: "To attempt to lobby this issue on the concerns of the producers of natural gas is an impossibility. When it's your customers who are saying they...
...final problem with the media blitz is not one of content but one of methods. Again, Mobil seems to be the chief villain. This summer it launched a new program whereby prominent cartoonists were hired to draw cartoons subtly embued with the Mobil message. An example is one by Roy Doty of a man standing in his back yard, axing to bits a rubber hose which was in the process of supplying water for his inflatable swimming pool. Another man turns to a puzzled neighbor and says, "He's explaining how breaking up the oil companies would work." Another cartoon...
What is disturbing about this practice is that the cartoons themselves bear no mention that they are part of a Mobil public relations campaign, and most of the papers that run the cartoons make no effort to volunteer that information. When the issue was advertisement by anti-Mobil groups, Herbert Schmertz, Mobil's vice-president for public affairs, wrote: "The public has a right to know who is behind any advocacy effort, and for whom the advocate is speaking. That applies to material from a corporation, or from a group that labels itself as public interest." How quickly they forget...