so basically, the president of the united states is ExxonMobile

[mopaul]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1501646,00.html

President's George Bush's decision not to sign the United States up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of pressure from ExxonMobil, the world's most powerful oil company, and other industries, according to US State Department papers seen by the Guardian.
The documents, which emerged as Tony Blair visited the White House for discussions on climate change before next month's G8 meeting, reinforce widely-held suspicions of how close the company is to the administration and its role in helping to formulate US policy.

In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is found thanking Exxon executives for the company's "active involvement" in helping to determine climate change policy, and also seeking its advice on what climate change policies the company might find acceptable.

Until now Exxon has publicly maintained that it had no involvement in the US government's rejection of Kyoto. But the documents, obtained by Greenpeace under US freedom of information legislation, suggest this is not the case.

---not news i guess, but it's further proof who's running the show--

[liberal N proud]

1. A government for the corporations by the corporations

[cthrumatrix]

2. corporations "never die" and keep consolidating power ...the whole system

is corrupt...media/politics/corporations...and then they "conquer and divide" the sheeple on school prayer.

[Missy M]

3. This infuriates me!!!!!

ExxonMobil determining climate change policy and the administration seeking ExxonMobil's advice on what policies they might find acceptable. The future of the planet being decided by an OIL company is an outrage and I believe its criminal.