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The New York Times spreads hype for petro-criminals who are taking your tax dollars and perfuming themselves with faux “green energy.”
The greenwashing crews of petro-criminal gangs like BP, Shell and Chevron and the rest continue to score big with for-profit media. Today’s New York Times features a front-page article with 10 paragraphs of hype that must have given oil executives a collective super-orgasm.
But wait! There’s more. The story CONTINUES inside with a 2-PAGE SPREAD and 13 full color photos describing what seems to be a heroic BP climate-saving effort. (These 13 photos are in addition to the 2 photos on the front page.) As expected, the New York Times is largely factually correct, but the implications of the story are false and disturbing.
First of all, BP is not taking a big gamble. This project is subsidized by YOU and by other taxpayers around the world. The project in question, and many other similar projects, were spurred by money provided by taxpayers via the Inflation Reduction Act here in America, and similar measures taken in the EU, India, Australia and other countries. Free money? Why shouldn’t these for-profit behemoths take it? Wouldn’t it be cheating the shareholder if they left the money on the table?
Well, let’s not discuss that. Let’s talk about the big gamble that BP is taking, a…
