{"id":37697,"date":"2017-03-25T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37697"},"modified":"2017-03-15T09:59:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T13:59:35","slug":"qotd-why-i-hate-big-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/03\/25\/qotd-why-i-hate-big-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Why I hate Big Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For many years now, I \u2013 and many sceptics like me \u2013 have been accused by climate alarmists of being \u201cin the pay of Big Oil\u201d. But even though we deserve it for promoting fossil fuels so enthusiastically and fighting their critics so heroically, few of us have ever received even a penny for our troubles. That\u2019s because Big Oil is far too busy trying to greenwash its image \u2013 as Shell itself did by sponsoring the <em>Guardian<\/em>\u2019s environment pages for many years \u2013 to waste time on the plucky, outspoken heroes who do a better job for Big Oil\u2019s PR than the Big Oil\u2019s paid PR departments do.<\/p>\n<p>Mainly, though it\u2019s disgust. Big Oil has this public image of being an industry for fearless, no-nonsense manly men who aren\u2019t afraid of getting their hands dirty or braving the environmentalists\u2019 wrath in order to do their ugly but important work supplying the world with much-needed energy.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it\u2019s an image almost entirely undeserved.<\/p>\n<p>Almost everyone at a senior level in Big Oil is a craven, simpering, politically correct, spineless, surrender-monkey corporate shill. They\u2019re cowards who are scared of free markets, won\u2019t speak up for capitalism, won\u2019t even defend their core business.<\/p>\n<p>James Delingpole, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/03\/14\/delingpole-why-i-totally-hate-big-oil-and-why-you-should-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why I Totally Hate Big Oil \u2013 And Why You Should Too\u2026&#8221;, <em>Breitbart.com<\/em><\/a>, 2017-03-14.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years now, I \u2013 and many sceptics like me \u2013 have been accused by climate alarmists of being \u201cin the pay of Big Oil\u201d. But even though we deserve it for promoting fossil fuels so enthusiastically and fighting their critics so heroically, few of us have ever received even a penny for our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,53,41],"tags":[640,409,51],"class_list":["post-37697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-alternativeenergy","tag-corporations","tag-pr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9O1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37698,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37697\/revisions\/37698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}