Offsetting guilt: Eco-minded descendants
of billionaire oil barons are PAYING hundreds
of activists $25,000-a-year to protest
around the world because they feel 'a
moral obligation to put genie back in
the bottle'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
James Gant
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/10/2022 9:28:48 PM
Three American oil scions have been bankrolling mobs of eco-zealots who have terrorized the world by slashing tires, blocking traffic and attacking firms. Aileen Getty, Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert and Peter Gill Case, who are heirs to their families' huge fortunes, are paying the salaries for thugs through their non-profits in an apparent bid to offset their relatives' legacies. Getty, whose grandfather created Getty Oil, has so far splashed out $1million through her California-based Climate Emergency Fund. Lambert and Case, who are both members of the Rockefeller dynasty that founded Standard Oil in 1870, have forked out $30million on The Equation Campaign.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
sunshinehorses 8/10/2022 9:31:23 PM (No. 1244395)
I bet they don't feel guilty enough to give up their fancy lifestyles though.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mushroom 8/10/2022 9:38:22 PM (No. 1244400)
I get why they feel guilty, it was stolen money.
Not all wealthy people started that way, but those two families top the list.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 8/10/2022 9:38:52 PM (No. 1244401)
People will start to get angry enough at this bologna that they will start to fight back. Then $25,000 won't seem like much.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
fca 8/10/2022 9:46:29 PM (No. 1244407)
No mining nor drilling, then freeze in the dark.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
leonardo 8/10/2022 9:59:16 PM (No. 1244422)
They don't come any stupider that these "heirs." Fossil fuel BUILT America.
We can switch over to other energy sources, but only when the nation is ready to transform ... we are NOT there YET! The heirs are just too stupid to see that ... they themselves could never have attained such positions of power and they are incapable of the critical judgment required to slowly make such a transition. They remind me of BIDEN!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
downnout 8/10/2022 10:07:16 PM (No. 1244426)
Instead of funding eco-terrorism, they could put that money to good use by building and funding treatment facilities for drug addicts or building housing for the homeless, but nooo, they have to fund the shrieking socialists.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 8/10/2022 10:07:42 PM (No. 1244427)
Must be hell to be so endowed with such unearned wealth. Poor things are so bored they must pay others to stir buckets of feces for their entertainment and absolutions. It doesn't occur to them what true philanthropy is.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 8/10/2022 10:10:35 PM (No. 1244428)
Idiots. Probably educated at some of the "finest" institutions, but not one damn bit of actual sense amongst the whole lot of them!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
john56 8/10/2022 10:22:04 PM (No. 1244436)
The real insult is that these ecominded trust fund babies think $25K is a "living wage" for their hired thugs.
I'm thinking $100K should be the floor. With Benefits. Plus Expenses (including legal and restitution for those situations where they actually do their deeds in a jurisdiction where such behavior is frowned upon). And vacation and pension.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 8/10/2022 10:42:49 PM (No. 1244445)
Those with slashed tires should now be allowed to sue them.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/10/2022 10:43:34 PM (No. 1244446)
Remember, they inherited a name and money, not brains. Where do these people think their trust funds came from? If they really feel the need to address eco issues, they would divest their trust funds of all of that dirty oil money and only invest in green energy projects.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 8/10/2022 11:10:51 PM (No. 1244461)
I really hope that some here tire slashers get hammered flat by the car owners.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/10/2022 11:48:24 PM (No. 1244489)
Sound like it's time for international level Class Action lawsuits for billions of dollars.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 8/10/2022 11:48:24 PM (No. 1244490)
Re#2. Baloney. Someone has been reading too much leftist propaganda against early capitalists.
Those oil companies made money by selling products that people wanted at prices that they could afford, and tgey made tgge economy work very well indeed.
Were they cutthroat business men? Definitely, but we needed and wanted what they were selling.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JimBob 8/11/2022 5:09:05 AM (No. 1244576)
I'm with DVC #14.
I recall reading about Getty.
He drove the price of kerosene (used in lamps in those pre-electricity days) DOWN considerably. from shirtsleeves to
The British have a saying.... "Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves." In Japan, the expression goes, “Rice paddies to rice paddies in three generations.” The Scottish say “The father buys, the son builds, the grandchild sells, and his son begs.” In China, “Wealth never survives three generations.”
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/11/2022 8:08:48 AM (No. 1244713)
The grandfather's who built these companies and earned all the money would immediately disinterest each of these spoiled woke snowflakes. Luckily, their grandfather's weren't as soft and gullible as their spoiled trust fund families have become.
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A sane society would arrest them, charge them with conspiracy to commit terror, and strip them all assets so at last they could be free.