<I see, your ideas are biased towards oil use. It certainly would help being paid a lot of money by BP to espouse ideas that would encourage oil use. Probably really helped if you could convince yourself they are right.>
I haven't been in the employ of BP since a couple of decades ago and even then, my ideas weren't determined by any need to falsify my beliefs to fit my job. If my job doesn't fit my beliefs, I change my job, not my beliefs.
In fact, the manufacturing manager thought I was off my rocker when I was promoting methanol, which he said could ruin $billions in refining capacity. Too bad said I. "If BP doesn't do it, DuPont will and then we'll have no gasoline sales OR methanol sales = a lose-lose situation."
I no doubt got into the issue because of being in the oil business and the environmental side of it. But that doesn't mean my conclusions come out at "we must use more oil". Just as, when I was given lead in petrol as an issue, I didn't come out with "lead is okay". I came out with "Holy hell! This is insane. Stop the lead!!!" The oil industry had been using lead for decades. It was crazy and I consider it quite possible that a class action suit against Associated Octel and other merchants of brain poison, possibly including BP, Exxon, Shell etc, would succeed and involve umpty$billions.
They should have known that lead was harming people and they should have demanded that governments ban the stuff. That was the argument I was pushing. Associated Octel was like the tobacco sellers - denying there was harm. My reading of the IQ tests didn't match theirs. I would like to see them sued for their back teeth.
I'm not a lawyer. "Why Lawyers Are Liars" slate.com Some of us are seekers of truth. Some of us can be bought off to lie about lead in petrol. Some can be bought off to lie and claim the greenhouse effect is a catastrophe in the making [they are getting a LOT of money if they join the frenzy, not much if they oppose]. Some of us like to know how things really work.
We can assume, using your argument, that you must be paid to espouse your ideas about the greenhouse effect [which seem to be just regurgitated from popular literature - which are your own ideas, not copied?]
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