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Real fancy school you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it...

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ExxonMobil will jack a person up in litigation until all the ice melts...

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Remember how in the 80's everyone was talking about how by 2015 we would no longer be using fossil fuels? Remember all of the optimistic talk of progression and innovation?

By the 90's all the talk of progression and an end to fossil fuels just.... vanished. But of course, the Big Oil corporations will claim they had nothing to do with it.

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ExxonMobil will be allowed to deduct that $236 million from their taxes.

We can cut Big Oil profiteers, but our Corporate partisan laws make sure they will never bleed.

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Equestria Girls is the Star Trek: Voyager of MLP

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Already begun.

Inhofe, of course has said God, not humans, controls the weather.Doug LaMalfa - “The climate of the globe has been fluctuating since God created it.”Jeff Miller - "...Our climate will continue to change because of the way God formed the earth."John Shimkus - “The earth will end only when God declares it is time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.”Virginia Foxx - Has lamented that some environmentalists "think that we, human beings, have more impact on the climate and the world than God does."From an article in 2013 by Tiffany Germain in Think Progress

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Beat me to it!

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Oil prices went to 30 dollars a barrel, and then the anti-global warming disinfo infected politics.

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Something tells me that Columbia University could find that funding elsewhere. Why they haven't rejected or returned Exxon's funding in the first place is the real mystery. This should be a given with any university: "Oh, you fund harmful propaganda? Well, then, sorry, you can't use our name for your self promotion. Maybe Oral Roberts or University of Phoenix will take your money."

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It's really hard to have a productive conversation with "Big WInd"

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That Exxon guy should have gone for a more nuanced and sophisticated rebuttal, like "I know you are,but what am I?"

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...honestly, they were one of the first companies to offer me a job coming out of college and they offered the highest pay. I LITERALLY think I "sub-consciously" tanked the training. Everything I screwed up are things I can do in my sleep and blindfolded. My heart was never in it and my intentions was to "pad" my resume with a Fortune 500 company. I guess it is hard to FAKE IT OUT when you truly hate someone or something

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The Texas Sidestep is strong with these people!

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But, but, BP spilled all that oil. What about that? Why is Colombia not going after them?

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Liberty University. They'll need them God's lawyers.

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The fact that Exxon-Mobil hasn't already napalmed Morningside Heights back into the Stone age is, frankly, surprising.

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