Green Options

Many of us are doing our best to decrease our gasoline and fossil fuel consumption. While we recognize that it is an honorable personal virtue to do so, most of us also realize that it isn't very realistic, and is often more trouble than it's really worth, to incorporate over-hyped and performance-reducing alternatives into our hectic lives.

In our conversations and in comments made to my first post, ExxonMobil’s Vice President of Public Affairs, Ken Cohen, has been explicit with his company’s position that global warming is happening, human activity is causing it, and something has to be done about it.

But the waters get a bit muddy when he is asked Exxon’s opinion on the best route to take to slow global warming. For example, Cohen explained that

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ExxonMobil was recently scorched in the spotlight when an article in the UK newspaper the Guardian tied the planet’s largest corporation to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a vehemently free-market, right-leaning organization that tried to pay scientists and economists to author articles casting doubt on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) global warming report. This didn’t surprise many people, as Exxon has never had a reputation of being green or

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