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Old 02-26-2011, 03:38 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Investigating all the facts is the proper way to go about things, but in the case of the oil companies, all i have to do is look at companies such as Exxon and BP.
You don't have to do much research at all to plainly see the evil.
You have to be truly blinded by greed to not see the obvious corruption and lack of respect for human life and the Environment that these corporations are guilty of.
pretty much sums it up right there

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Old 02-26-2011, 08:00 PM   #32 (permalink)
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It is interesting to me that the frustration is directed at the corporation. A corporation can not be evil or good or any mix their of. The people running them on the other hand.
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It is interesting to me that the frustration is directed at the corporation. A corporation can not be evil or good or any mix their of. The people running them on the other hand.
it could be argued the people running the corporation *are* the corporation, seeing as they are directly representing said corporation.
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It is interesting to me that the frustration is directed at the corporation. A corporation can not be evil or good or any mix their of. The people running them on the other hand.
I believe that a corperation achieved the legal status of person in the first half of the 20th century. The fun hasn't stoped since.
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Old 02-27-2011, 12:16 AM   #35 (permalink)
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How is an axe ground for profit different than an axe ground for liability cases or political actavism. What would make one more trust werthy than the other? I would suggest to you that the range of trust werthyness is the same for all three groups.
And I wouldn't really disagree. But the thing is, I don't really TRUST any of them at all. Rather, I work on what I know of their motivations. A corporation (if its management is intelligent, which is not a given) wants to go on making a profit from me, and from the rest of its customers, which means that it will act in ways which its management believes will maximize profit, and which will allow it to go on making that profit in the future.

The liability lawyer is motivated by a desire to collect maximum damages, and thus is motivated to distort the facts & play on emotions in order to win large judgements. The political activists want to gain power for their faction, and thus have not even the restraint of potentially being cited for contempt to restrain their distortions & outright lies - which ALL political activists resort to, whenever it suits their ends.
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Old 02-27-2011, 12:21 AM   #36 (permalink)
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because it isn't a conspiracy theory. They want to run gas as long as possible because there isn't near as much money with EV tech...
Which seems to be a rather circular argument. Seems as though you're constructing this false argument that there's less money in selling batteries plus oil than in selling oil alone, simply to explain your belief that they're blocking the technology. I'll admit that it's possible that Chevron's management could really think this, but it doesn't seem at all likely.
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And I wouldn't really disagree. But the thing is, I don't really TRUST any of them at all. Rather, I work on what I know of their motivations. A corporation (if its management is intelligent, which is not a given) wants to go on making a profit from me, and from the rest of its customers, which means that it will act in ways which its management believes will maximize profit, and which will allow it to go on making that profit in the future.

The liability lawyer is motivated by a desire to collect maximum damages, and thus is motivated to distort the facts & play on emotions in order to win large judgements. The political activists want to gain power for their faction, and thus have not even the restraint of potentially being cited for contempt to restrain their distortions & outright lies - which ALL political activists resort to, whenever it suits their ends.
You wear rose-tinted glasses when you look at corporations, and take them off when assessing liability lawyers and political activists. History is chock full of corporate maximum profit examples that had no plans whatsoever for the corporation's future. The recent example of PG&E failing to pressure test its gas pipeline that blew up in San Bruno, CA is one. BP's failure to have an operational or backup blowout preventer on the Deepwater Horizon is another. How about Arthur Andersen's classic collapse? Or we can skip the niceties and just use Enron, Earl Jones, Allen Stanford or Bernie Madoff to blow your claim about corporations planning for future profits. I'll bet the list of crooked corporations that made the headlines in the past 3 years would outnumber all the political activist examples you could find in the entire history of the United States.
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Which seems to be a rather circular argument. Seems as though you're constructing this false argument that there's less money in selling batteries plus oil than in selling oil alone, simply to explain your belief that they're blocking the technology. I'll admit that it's possible that Chevron's management could really think this, but it doesn't seem at all likely.
just because you refuse to look at evidence, doesn't mean its not there.
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just because you refuse to look at evidence, doesn't mean its not there.
And just because you've decided to see evidence in random patterns doesn't mean it's really there :-)

It's really down to evolutionary neurobiology: the human brain has evolved to be a very good pattern-detector. It's so good that it can even see patterns that don't exist. After all, what's the evolutionary cost of thinking you see a tiger that's not really there, versus the cost of not seeing the one that is? So you look at something random - clouds, leaves against the sky, the texture of a ceiling - let your mind unfocus a bit, and you'll start seeing all sorts of things. That's why people can see Jesus in a scorched tortilla, or a corporate conspiracy in perfectly rational acts.
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Old 02-27-2011, 02:40 PM   #40 (permalink)
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Your explanation has nothing to do with anything-
chevron (a company with a major history of anti anything not oil) holds majority share of NiMH battery pattens/ many company's have tried to buy rights to produce these batteries for electric cars/ Cheveron has said NO every single time even though many have tried.

This isn't marry magdalen in a grilled cheese sandwich this is monopolizing a market, Which by US law is illegal. They are breaking the law, end of story.
try using google to look at the track records of these company's, then defend them.

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