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Exxon Lobbyist Caught on Camera Going Full Cartoon Villain
Exxon Lobbyist Caught on Camera Going Full Cartoon Villain
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well it's time to crack open a cold one and then pour a little
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out for the end of an era here at exxon mobil
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that's right for 30 years exxon has been accused of funding disinformation
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campaigns and paying off politicians
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and lying about climate
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change and for 30 years they've had one response
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it wasn't me it's the classic
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shaggy defense and it's been incredibly
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effective for exxon because all of their senior leadership
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has stuck to the wasn't me strategy
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and their army of lawyers and money has been able to use this blanket
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denial to fight off any legal challenges
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until june of 2021
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when exxonmobil was to borrow a brace from shaggy
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caught butt naked banging on the bathroom
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floor in an undercover
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sting operation by greenpeace
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activists greenpeace contacted exxon mobil's senior director of federal relations
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a man named keith mccoy
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and pretended to be from a middle eastern oil company pr firm that wanted
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to hire mccoy for a cushy new job but first they wanted to know
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how in the heck exxon was able to avoid accountability
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for all of their actions
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and keith mccoy in
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full hd confessed to like eight different cartoon
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villain level evil plots that exxon mobil had spearheaded
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to delay action on climate change
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30 years of wasn't me's up in smoke in a single zoom call did
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we aggressively fight against
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some of the science
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uh yes carbon tax isn't going to happen but it gives us a talking
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point that we can say well what is exxon mobil for well we're for
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our carbon tax they start talking about how this is an exon mobile chemical
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and exxon mobil is poisoning our waterways
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we need congressmen so and so to introduce the spill we need him to
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make a floor statement we need him to send a letter
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you name it keith mccoy spent the better part of an hour speed confessing
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so there's a lot to unpack and i urge you to check out the
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many stories that actual
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good journalists have written links in the description
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but for me there were three specific
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turbo confessions that i think were particularly
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important right out of the gates if you ever find yourself using the term
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shadow group to describe your business associates
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you're probably not the good guys did we join
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some of these shadow groups
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to work against some of the early efforts
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yes that's true did we aggressively
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fight against some of the science
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uh yes you know we were looking out for our investments
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we were looking out for
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our shareholders in this context
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a shadow group is when you or someone you know sets up a separate
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group that you then fund to promote fake or misleading
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scientific conclusions that support your preferred conclusion
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shadow groups are basically how people catfished
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each other before facebook
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and keith mccoy just admitted that exxon used shadow groups to trick people into
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thinking climate change was fake so they could keep making their insane
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profits and that's especially
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cruella deville style when you consider the fact that exxon has known climate change
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is real for over 40 years as demonstrated
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from internal documentation going back to july of 1977
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where exxon scientist dr james black held an internal meeting explicitly
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warning the top executives
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about it i made a whole video about this and you can watch it
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on my channel if you
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feel like it but the tldr
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is that in the 90s exxon switched to a deny and delay strategy
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not unlike big tobacco
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oh fun fact not fun but fact fact exxon mobil actually used some of
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the same exact experts that big tobacco used when they tried to convince people
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that smoking cigarettes didn't give you cancer
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even though they had a mountain of evidence that said it super did
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you ever seen the matrix
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have you ever seen the matrix
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no wait which one is the matrix whoopi goldberg and she can see ghosts
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right and if you want an independent
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explanation of what a shadow group is feel free to visit
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www.shadowgroupexplanation definitely not climatetownrelated.com
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and while you're at it consider subscribing
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to me on patreon
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a thing that will not give you cancer
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wait these are my confessions
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isn't going to happen but it gives us a talking point that we can
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say well what is exxon mobil for well we're for a carbon tax the
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senior director of federal policy
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admits on camera that they only support a carbon tax because they know it
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won't pass and they can use their fake support of it as a talking
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point oh my god
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he admitted actually do we have a shaggy reference we can use here steven
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call me on camera
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he even got him on camera
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thank you shaggy anyway a carbon tax is actually
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a very effective way to fight climate change
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it's basically a pollution
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tax that says let's charge companies a fee for every ton of carbon dioxide
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pollution they emit companies will be incentivized
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to reduce their own carbon emissions to reduce the fees they pay and we
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can let the precious
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free market solve the problem
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countries like england and sweden already have a carbon tax and guess what it
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actually works so when a bunch of big oil companies like exxon started promoting
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a carbon tax in recent years it turned a lot of heads
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maybe these big oil companies
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aren't trying to delay climate change and are ready to help tackle the problem
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a thing they explicitly
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state on their websites
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but it turns out none of that's true apparently exxonmobil
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just did the math and found out that in today's political climate there's no
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way to get 60 senators including
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10 republicans to vote in favor of actual climate policy
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but you don't have to take my word for it take it away senior
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director of federal relations at exxon mobil it's going to take political
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courage political will in order to get something
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done and that doesn't exist in politics
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it just doesn't it's basically
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never going to happen right is the calculation
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no it's not it's not good carbon tax isn't going to happen and they've
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been running this carbon tax hustle for over a decade here's former ceo
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and former secretary of state
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rex tillerson remember that talking about the carbon tax back in 2009
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a revenue neutral carbon tax though has the advantage
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of being well focused
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for achieving our society's
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shared goals of reducing emissions over the long term carbon tax carbon tax carbon
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tax carbon tax carbon tax carbon tax carbon tax carbon tax carbon tax now
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some people have suggested that a revenue carbon attacks has no chance of gaining
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sufficient support in congress to become a law
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i disagree with this assessment
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carbon tax isn't going to happen it's an
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easy talking point so since the carbon tax was the only climate policy exxon
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mobil would get behind
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and a lie detector test determined
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that was a lie exxon
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probably shouldn't be trusted when it comes to the current climate policy legislation
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being debated aka the third
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if you spent much time in america you'll notice that our infrastructure
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doesn't hold up to extreme weather
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or mild weather or no weather and there's this huge infrastructure
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package going through congress
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right now that would help rebuild america in a more resilient way create a
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ton of jobs and help a ton of people but it would require a
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bunch of multi-billion dollar corporations
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to actually pay their taxes
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and that's where exxon draws the line we're playing defense
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because the president biden's talking about this big infrastructure
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package and he's going to pay for it by increasing corporate taxes
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and their strategy is to go after the more vulnerable
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senators both democratic and republican
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a vulnerable senator is someone who's up for re-election
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and would maybe lose that race if exxon decided to fund their competition
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you know what keith mccoy actually describes this a lot better
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do we have footage of that the democrat
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side we look for the moderates
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on these issues so it's the mansions
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it's the cinemas it's the testers
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don't mention i talk to his office every week
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he is the king maker
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on this because he's a democrat from west virginia which is very conservative
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state who's up for reelection in 2022
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that's hassan that's kelly
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i can't worry about the 2027
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class because they're not focused
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on reelection the 2022
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class is focused on re-election
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so i know i have them those are the marco rubios
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those are the senator kennedy
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those are the senator danes so you can have those conversations
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with them because they're a captive audience they
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they need you and i need them they're also going after democratic
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senator chris coons from delaware
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now why would they be going after senator coons who has a very close
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release from delaware who has a very close relationship
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with biden so we've been working with his office matter of fact our ceo
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is talking to him next tuesday
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and you know what
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it's already working for exxon
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because that two trillion dollar infrastructure
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plan has stalled and gotten broken down into a smaller
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550 billion dollar plan that really only includes roads bridges and some utilities
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you know i wonder if a certain exxon
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sting operation can shed any light onto that you start to stick to roads
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and bridges and instead of a two trillion dollar bill it's a 800 billion
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dollar bill if you lower that threshold you stick to highways and bridges
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then a lot of the the negative stuff
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starts to come out
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why would you put in a uh
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something on uh uh emissions
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reductions on climate change
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uh to oil refineries
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in a highway bill people say yeah that doesn't make any sense that shouldn't
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be in this bill just terrific
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stuff and it was almost the perfect crime you just made one tiny mistake
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you mic'd yourself up got in front of your own camera and confessed
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all of this for an hour to a man you barely knew at the
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prospect of maybe making some extra money well obviously
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exxon is caught i mean how could they possibly
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no way no way no
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way yeah after greenpeace
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released these videos exxon
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dusted off a classic
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and just said it wasn't me again
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and you gotta admire the absolute
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commitment to the bid it is a real power move to say that your
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senior director of federal relations
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a man whose literal job it is to represent your company's position
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doesn't represent your company's
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position and just to stick the landing on this whole it wasn't me by
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shaggy runner exxon denying it a second time is like if the woman from
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the shaggy song had then heard the original
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shaggy song in which they explicitly
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detail their plans to lie to her and then she confronted
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them about that and instead of confessing
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shaggy then wrote and recorded
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a second song called it wasn't me too and released it on twitter
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and if any of this statement is even remotely
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true how do i say this
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why does keith mccoy
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still work at exxon
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i mean if he was some kind of liar who went rogue
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and said a bunch of dangerous
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and incriminating lies about your company all while interviewing
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for a different job
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wouldn't he have been
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of course he would have if you're a fry cook at mcdonald's
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and you interview for a job at taco bell in which you get caught
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on camera saying you in the fries every night
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you get fired if keith mccoy had been lying about all of this they
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probably would have fired him but they didn't
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because he was probably
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telling the truth and exxonmobil
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has an amazing strategy when it comes to the truth
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they deny it until it blows over then they gather all of it up
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and dump it in the ocean
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but of course they were going to just deny it because that's a winning
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strategy for them and it works so well because our elected representatives
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both republican and democrat
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won't stop taking money and meetings from exxon
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mobile so bravo to you exxon
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for bravely launching a secret lobbying campaign
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to once again prevent action on climate change
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and uh what was the reason
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again uh you know we were looking out for our investments
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now maybe it's not usually your thing but if you found any of what
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i've said compelling i've taken the liberty of putting the phone numbers and contact
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information of all of these vulnerable
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senators in the description of this video
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if you have a chance to give them a call and let them know
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that you think it's unacceptable
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to take money in meetings with exxon
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i think that might really help them out
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who are those senators again keith don't mention the cinemas
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it's the testers senator capito
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tassin that's kelly the senator coons those are the marco rubio
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senator kennedy and senator danes so if you are thinking about picking up your
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phone and calling these people
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do it quick because they're still working on climate legislation
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in a different infrastructure
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bill which would only actually need 50 votes to pass through budget reconciliation
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what am i pod save america
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but that would only work if all the democratic
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senators and maybe even some republican
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senators don't cave to bad faith lobbying efforts by people like keith mccoy
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so please contact our senators
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all of them get weird with it if you want you better yet invite
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some friends over get drunk and just go to town on these guys
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and if that's not really your speed
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just get educated on the climate crisis maybe even join some local organizations
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like citizens climate lobby the sunrise
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movement extinction rebellion 350.org
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the list goes on because if you're starting to worry about climate change and
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you think our system is not that well equipped to handle it you gotta
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ask yourself one what was the point of getting it on camera if we're
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just gonna let them say it wasn't me
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it was you we got it on camera
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well that was about four minutes longer than it needed to be huh
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seriously thank you so much for watching i really appreciate it and i'm going
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to keep making more videos
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but if you do want to support the channel i just started a climatetown
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on youtube for free this would just be if you wanted to like help
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me make them faster and better
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oh also uh exclusive
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so you want people to pay for the stuff that's not good enough to
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be free i am just
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hoping that a few people might want to send like five bucks a month
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uh my way because
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you appreciate what could be described
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