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November 18, 2021 By William Rivers Pitt ✨, Truthout


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There is a scene from Francis Ford Coppola’s bleak masterpiece Apocalypse Now that came to mind in the aftermath of the Glasgow climate conference and Wednesday’s 🦕🦖 big oil lease 😈 shindig for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico. ... ...

“Hey soldier,” he asks one hollow-eyed troop, “do you know who’s in command here?” The soldier stares at him a moment and replies, “Yeah,” before turning back to the darkness. ... ...


In Glasgow, representatives from 200 countries came together to give speeches and praise each other for taking action, but in the end, they could not bring themselves to say, “Coal is bad.” Clearly, someone else was in charge. ... ...

Biden ran hard on salvaging the environment , and his administration says it tried to stop this sale, but there it went anyway: Lease Sale 257 generated $191,688,984 in high bids for 308 tracts covering 1.7 million acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico[/color], according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). “ExxonMobil Corporation submitted the highest number of total bids at 94 and Chevron U.S.A. Inc submitted the largest value of total high bids at $47,128,011, lease sale 257’s final notice of sale information package shows,” reports Rigzone. “Other companies participating in the sale included Shell Offshore Inc, BP Exploration & Production Inc and Equinor Gulf of Mexico LLC.” ... ...

 In effect, the oil industry just paid top dollar to the U.S. government for the privilege of building profitable suicide machines in the dying waters of the Gulf.


The infrastructure bill contains billions in fossil fuel subsidies, even as it was stripped of all meaningful climate policy.

Full article:
https://truthout.org/articles/from-glasgow-to-gulf-of-mexico-fossil-fuel-industry-shows-us-whos-in-charge/