HuffPo: Gas Industry Loses Bid To Block Green Building Codes
"The natural gas industry lost its initial bid to strip key climate-friendly measures out of national homebuilding guidelines, HuffPost has learned.
The rules in the model building code will require new homes to come equipped with the circuitry to hook up induction stoves and electric car chargers, and will be used as a benchmark in almost every state.
At least one person there was paying attention. Frank Ikard, congressman from Wichita Falls and soon to be head of the API, said this at the 1965 API annual meeting:
This report unquestionably will fan emotions, raise fears, and bring demands for action. The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world's peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out.
One of the most important predictions of the report is that carbon dioxide is being added to the atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas at such a rate that by the year 2000 the heat balance will be so modified as possibly to cause marked changes in climate beyond local or even national efforts. The report further states, and I quote:
“… the pollution from internal combustion engines is so serious, and is growing so fast that an alternative nonpolluting means of powering automobiles, buses, and trucks is likely to become a national necessity.” Ikard, F. N. Meeting the challenges of 1966. In Annual Meeting of the American Petroleum Institute 1965 12–15 (API, 1965).[5]
The ironies abound. Frank Ikard won his first election to Congress by trashing Walter Jenkins for being a Catholic. (Read more about Walter on Wikipedia). That district is now represented by PAB's very own Dr. Feelgood, Ronny Jackson!
The hazards of CO2 in the atmosphere have long been understood. Only the willfully and maliciously stupid can still ignore them.
“Only by putting Darren Woods out of business can we truly make him happy.”That would be okay, but I would like to submit a Modest Proposal for dealing with the likes of the Darren Woods of the world.
Yep. Big Oil is just starting to emerge from publicly denying and downplaying, and is shifting into blaming the consumer. That's where Big Tobacco was about 50 years ago. It still lies in the future for Big Food, which is still mostly in the "denying and downplaying" stage.
So this guy wants a carbon tax? I take it ExxonMobil will make that position clear to individual Congressmen through one-on-one lobbying, with the warning that campaign contributions will depend on their support for such a tax.
Trump sycophant Rex Tillerson is pro-fracking. Until Exxon wanted to do it near his big house in the Banana Republic of Texas. In that case he was against it.
Guillotines anyone?
What an incredibly huge buttmunch that guy is......fucking owner class!
I was thinking of saving this great article to my google drive, then remembered Watchlist, aka * Under his Eye *.
Oh shucks, that's just a mean joke. Let's play scrabble ! Nothin' to See Here, Move on !!!!!
Ta, Dok. Live lightly on earth, every way you can.
HuffPo: Gas Industry Loses Bid To Block Green Building Codes
"The natural gas industry lost its initial bid to strip key climate-friendly measures out of national homebuilding guidelines, HuffPost has learned.
The rules in the model building code will require new homes to come equipped with the circuitry to hook up induction stoves and electric car chargers, and will be used as a benchmark in almost every state.
In November, trade associations representing gas utilities and furnace manufacturers launched a last-ditch effort to gut the provisions, which will be released this year." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iecc-icc-building-codes-climate_n_65e754f5e4b0170871fbcdbe
It's not like this has been a huge secret. In 1959, Edward Teller gave a talk at the American Petroleum Institute explaining the situation:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jan/01/on-its-hundredth-birthday-in-1959-edward-teller-warned-the-oil-industry-about-global-warming
At least one person there was paying attention. Frank Ikard, congressman from Wichita Falls and soon to be head of the API, said this at the 1965 API annual meeting:
This report unquestionably will fan emotions, raise fears, and bring demands for action. The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world's peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out.
One of the most important predictions of the report is that carbon dioxide is being added to the atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas at such a rate that by the year 2000 the heat balance will be so modified as possibly to cause marked changes in climate beyond local or even national efforts. The report further states, and I quote:
“… the pollution from internal combustion engines is so serious, and is growing so fast that an alternative nonpolluting means of powering automobiles, buses, and trucks is likely to become a national necessity.” Ikard, F. N. Meeting the challenges of 1966. In Annual Meeting of the American Petroleum Institute 1965 12–15 (API, 1965).[5]
That's all in his Wikipedia bio page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_N._Ikard
The ironies abound. Frank Ikard won his first election to Congress by trashing Walter Jenkins for being a Catholic. (Read more about Walter on Wikipedia). That district is now represented by PAB's very own Dr. Feelgood, Ronny Jackson!
The hazards of CO2 in the atmosphere have long been understood. Only the willfully and maliciously stupid can still ignore them.
“Gaslighting” with clean coal
Buy more plastics
-exxon
It’s recyclable!
(Not currently recyclable)
“Only by putting Darren Woods out of business can we truly make him happy.”That would be okay, but I would like to submit a Modest Proposal for dealing with the likes of the Darren Woods of the world.
Something to do with a tumbrel ride, perhaps?
Free Tumbrel Rides!
“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴: 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳."
Yep. Big Oil is just starting to emerge from publicly denying and downplaying, and is shifting into blaming the consumer. That's where Big Tobacco was about 50 years ago. It still lies in the future for Big Food, which is still mostly in the "denying and downplaying" stage.
... and the firearms industry.
So this guy wants a carbon tax? I take it ExxonMobil will make that position clear to individual Congressmen through one-on-one lobbying, with the warning that campaign contributions will depend on their support for such a tax.
Or maybe not.
Will that one-on-one lobbying involve fornication? Just asking for a friend.
When someone gets fucked as a result of lobbying, it's usually the American electorate.
Give him a quart of Exxon oil and leave him in the middle of the Atcama desert à la Quantum of Solace.
Take that motherfucker to the woodshed. No one enters. No one leaves.
Merchants of Doubt is a terrific book. Just saying.
I’ve given away several copies so far, it’s a must read.
Trump sycophant Rex Tillerson is pro-fracking. Until Exxon wanted to do it near his big house in the Banana Republic of Texas. In that case he was against it.
"...dirty little secret..." Oh the irony.