Charlie Rose

charliesheep  02/09/2013 03:08 PM Report

LIARS OF FIRST MAGNITUDE;-7 SISTERS; OTHERWISE KNOW AS "PUMP YOU BANDITS" ARE THIS YEAR, posting the highest profits EVER! cutting out real jobs[union]; outsourcing, that leads to Pollution,ALL OIL SUPPLIERS I.E. "BIG OIL" in barge accidents! exxon- valdez-HARBOR DAMAGE SITE; still not close to priStine or restored but they [exxon] DON'T FLAG "THEIR" SHIPS NOW THEY ARE CONTRACTOR OWNED L.L.C.----THE GLOBAL FOOTPRINT FOR THE SEARCH AND ACQUISITON OF OIL; HAS FOSTERED; JUNGLES PUSHED DOWN BY D-10'S AND FOLLOWED BY GIANT WOODEN MATS PULLED OVER RAINFOREST FLOORS, THEREBY, "KILLING EVERYTHING" IN THE PATH! I.E. "BURNING FIRES" SCENE AS EARLY AS 1950'S VIA U-2 SPY PLANES ACROSS THE GLOBE FOR 6 DECADES! BUT, -THE "PASS THRU COSTS" WERE BORN BY THE WORLD;QUESTION NEVER AROSE BACK THEN-- WHO SENT THE ATMOSPHERE 3 MILES HIGHER UP? WHY FOSSIL FUELS DRILLING[EXXON]7 SISTERS ALL, THAT TOLD THE WORLD TO; KISS THEIR ASS!

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/13/2012 01:53 AM Report

We were told that Exxon-Mobil is not transparent. Not well liked. Their defensive posture is the crouch (like in the bushes?). Sucking in of breath when telling your cousins what company you work for.

Not so much in the red states (especially gulf coast red states) but perhaps true in the blue states.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/13/2012 01:45 AM Report

For years Exxon-Mobil said there is no money in alternative energy and we ought to know because we spent hundreds of millions of dollars on research and we found that oil is still the answer.

Now, however, they are moving down the algae road:

Algae could yield more than 2000 gallons of fuel per acre per year of production. Approximate yields for other fuel sources are far lower:

- Palm — 650 gallons per acre per year

- Sugar cane — 450 gallons per acre per year

- Corn — 250 gallons per acre per year

- Soy — 50 gallons per acre per year

http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/energy_vehicle_algae.aspx

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/13/2012 01:32 AM Report

Although the stock has done very well please remember Lee Raymond retired with $400M Charlie.

This is an obscene amount of money especially for a public company and sounds more like something you would read about the dictator of a third world country.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/13/2012 01:27 AM Report

Lee Raymond PhD in Chemical Engineering @34:00: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/663

“The data supports the notion that the earth is gradually warming.” “The climate has changed every year for millions of years, sunspots, wobble of the earth. Times when there was no ice on the earth. Is part of what is happening related to something other than natural variability? The House of Lords say the data is not clear that human activity produces global warming.

“If Lee Raymond is wrong we have lost 10 years in doing something with Global Warming.” That was said by Charlie almost seven years ago.

I guess we have made our decision to hope for the best and to plan for the best.

Saultxyca  05/08/2012 05:49 AM Report

If that choice anecdote about Putin and Lee Raymond is any indication, Steve Coll ought to tackle a bio of the Exxon chief.

ShalomFreedman  05/07/2012 10:54 PM Report

This was interesting and informative but it did not touch upon at least one very important subject. How does 'ExxonMobil' play politics with dictatorial regimes? What is their connection with Saudi lobbying in the U.S.? How do they use their money in political terms, also within the U.S.?

Perhaps these things are in the book but they were not addressed in the interview.

REMant  05/07/2012 11:44 AM Report

Raymond was a PhD chemical engineer from South Dakota. Tillerson is a civil engineer from Texas. That may tell you something about orientation. But does anyone really care anymore about Exxon, even with gas around $4/gal, Al Gore glowering, and the president trying to score brownie points? I think he'll have to drill elsewhere for muck.