ExxonMobil Makes US Energy Policy

May 29, 2012

The American government's energy policy is as murky as crude oil. Political divisions have kept lawmakers from agreeing on a single direction to follow, so depending on who is in power, energy policy shifts from one ideology to the other.

A far more stable energy policy can be found in the ethos of ExxonMobil. The corporation favors profiting from American dependence on fossil fuels and that policy is unswayed by political winds. That stability, combined with hundreds of billions of dollars, means the most coherent and influential energy policy in America comes from that of ExxonMobil, according to Steve Coll, president of the New America Foundation.

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