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Exxpose Exxon
ExxonMobil is trying to open the Arctic Refuge to oil drilling and sabotaging efforts to slow global warming. Despite making a record $36.1 billion profit last year, the company is still shirking paying the money it owes fishermen and other Alaskans hurt by the Exxon Valdez spill 16 years ago and refusing to put its huge profits to good use developing clean, renewable energy. Tell ExxonMobil's CEO that it's time to start moving America forward, not backward!
Fill out the form below to send a letter letting CEO Rex Tillerson know you won’t purchase ExxonMobil’s gas or products, invest in its stock, or take a job with the company until it changes its ways.
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Subject: ExxonMobil must clean up its act!
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
Our country remains overly dependent on oil, which has serious consequences ranging from rising gasoline prices that burden every American to global warming that threatens current and future generations. This addiction to oil represents a failed energy strategy, one that your company not only supports but has helped to develop. I am most disturbed by:
* ExxonMobil's active support of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge;
* ExxonMobil's efforts to block meaningful action to cut global warming pollution and its funding of junk science to hide the real facts about global warming;
* ExxonMobil's conscious decision to forgo investment in clean energy solutions - despite your record profits at a time of rising gasoline prices;
* ExxonMobil's failure to pay all of the punitive damages awarded to fishermen and others injured by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
ExxonMobil represents yesterday's energy policy; I would rather spend my money and time moving forward, not backward. Therefore, I will not purchase ExxonMobil's gas or products, invest in ExxonMobil stock, or work for the company.
Sincerely,
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Campaign Launched:
July 06, 2005
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We stand at a crossroads on energy policy in the United States. Gasoline prices are soaring across the country, and the economy is beginning to feel the weight of burgeoning energy costs. The world’s most respected scientists agree that we are already seeing the effects of global warming, caused by the burning of oil, coal, and gas to power our cars and homes. Our oil dependence also is compromising the country’s national security. And, as the oil industry looks for new sources of oil, our elected officials are becoming increasingly willing to consider drilling in places once thought sacrosanct—the coasts of California and Florida, national monuments, wilderness areas, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The good news is that we already have solutions to these problems. The technology exists to make cars and SUVs go much farther on a gallon of gasoline, conserving millions of barrels of oil each year. The United States has tremendous potential to generate electricity from renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. Making the lights and appliances in our homes and businesses more efficient could save consumers money while using less electricity.
The bad news is that some powerful interests—such as ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company—are doing everything they can to keep oil and gas front and center of America’s energy policy. Despite earning record profits at a time of rising gasoline prices, ExxonMobil has failed to invest in clean energy solutions to ease America’s oil dependence. ExxonMobil has funded pseudo-scientists to produce “research” to hide the facts about global warming and worked to derail international negotiations to reduce global warming pollution. The company also continues to lobby to drill in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to help fuel the country’s oil addiction—just for a little while longer.
In short, ExxonMobil is padding its ever-growing bottom-line at the expense of the world’s environment and America’s national security and economy.
Please take a moment to tell ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson that you will say no to ExxonMobil at the gas pump, as an investment, and as a potential employer. Then ask your family and friends to help Exxpose Exxon.
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