Vaclav Klaus, Transportation and ExxonMobil

Czech President Vaclav Klaus’ new book on environmental policy questions the alleged “consensus” on global warming.

Congress of Racial Equality Chairman Roy Innis likens current energy policy to discriminatory Jim Crow laws.

Shareholders offer competing proposals at ExxonMobil’s annual meeting.

1. ENVIRONMENT

Czech President Vaclav Klaus’ new book on environmental policy questions the alleged “consensus” on global warming.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: President Fred L. Smith, Jr. on the importance of Klaus’ book:

“Today, the global warming debate raging in both the United States and Europe has metastasized into cultural warfare against economic liberty. For that reason, pro-freedom voices are needed to reframe the debate to show how a free people can better address the challenges facing Western civilization. To that end, we are proud to publish Blue Planet in Green Shackles.”

 

2. TRANSPORTATION

Congress of Racial Equality Chairman Roy Innis likens current energy policy to discriminatory Jim Crow laws.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on the importance of affordable transportation:

“As Congressional energy bills make energy and transportation progressively more expensive, it’s worth recalling that it was cars (and carpooling) that made Martin Luther King’s Montgomery bus boycott viable. For many black people in Montgomery, that was the only transportation alternative to the segregated buses that demeaned them. Technological and economic progress was key to breaking down entrenched segregation in the Deep South.”

 

3. BUSINESS

Shareholders offer competing proposals at ExxonMobil’s annual meeting.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on his role at the meeting:

“The meeting featured 17 shareholder proposals, the vast majority of which were filed by left-leaning ‘investors’ seeking, in one way or another, to pressure company management into implementing the green agenda. As a portfolio manager of a libertarian/conservative activist mutual fund, I attended the meeting to defend company shareholders the tens of millions of Americans who own ExxonMobil shares either directly or indirectly through retirement plans, mutual funds and other institutional investments.”

 

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