It’s time for these denials of responsibility to end. BP is responsible for the oil it sells. No one else is. And on that basis it is clear it has no intention of being a net-zero carbon company.
Reasonable adults think that if we burn a litre of petrol then we’re the people – having done the burning – responsible for the pollution stemming from the burning of that litre of petrol.
Snippa insists that it’s BP responsible for his drive to the shops.
No doubt Helios is to blame when he gets sunburnt at the beach, not his own damn stupidity.
‘Net’ confuses Murphy.
I thought the Oxford bursar’s strategy was good. If his college’s students wanted to reduce CO2 emissions he’d obligingly turn off their central heating. He made the offer knowing perfectly well that they are a bunch of dishonest, self-indulgent hypocrites.
And on that basis it is clear it has no intention of being a net-zero carbon company.
As me Mam used to say, “thank fuck!”
Unfortunately I’m hearing from my petroleum engineering pals that the sector is expecting big bucks for some sort of retarded carbon capture nonsense. Literally billions to squirt an inert trace gas into subterranean rocks instead of creating anything productive. We’d be cheaper using old school weather-appeasance techniques, involving stone circles and the Wicker Man.
What’s the economic term for the opposite of value-add?
I think if anyone needs further evidence of the continuing decline of Murphy’s mental faculty they could do worse than to look at the comments section on that link – I’m increasingly of the opinion that his entire persona is a satirical creation of rare genius. Surely nobody in reality could be this incompetent and utterly ignorant on almost anything on which they care to opine and yet be convinced of their own near infallibility? Even he cannot be that stupid in reality….
“What’s the economic term for the opposite of value-add”
Socialism
Waitrose are responsible for their customers getting fat, or getting food poisoning because they are something two weeks past it’s use by date.
Using his logic, here’s Richard Murphy’s alternative VAT system.
VAT charged on all sales B2B or B2C (and probably if he could enforce it C2C as well). No exemptions for finance etc.
No-one able to recover VAT on their purchases.
What a complete suppurating b3llend
By this logic, BP are also responsible for saving all the lives of those using or receiving medical equipment involving plastics, of protecting wildlife where rangers drive jeeps to counter poachers, and for any and all carbon captured in their abandoned wells. I doubt this line of argument is going to win many backers, so we’ll have to chalk the whole thing up as a logic error.
” And on that basis it is clear it has no intention of being a net-zero carbon company.”
If it is claiming it’s going to be, then we should sell BP and fast.
However, if a carbon tax is to be applied, the obvious best place to do it is at extraction and at extraction alone. Then it’s priced in everywhere else and we don;t have to fuck about with the whole rest of the economy. Do it once in a place where it will be least expensive and difficult to apply – keep the attendant bureaucracy to a minimum.
We should also recall that Murphy has declared he is a terrorist by explicit support of Extinction Rebellion- his stupidity now openly out there
@Tim W
Ritchie is following Gov’t orders:
– Supermarkets responsible for litter, food waste…
– Food sellers responsible for obesity/starvation
– Capitalist profiteers responsible for high energy/elec prices
– blah…
Nothing ever buyers fault
@Van_Patten
After having a look, you’re absolutely correct
@February 13, 2020 at 6:45 pm +1
Offsetting for the Rich[ie]: Kill the poor to save the planet Kill the poor to save the planet
Too true
‘Eco-warriors’ need to stop ‘scaring’ people that the world will end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3fLlkSrSoc
Shame he devalues message with “[Man Made] Climate Change is a real threat”; No, if warning, it’s an opportunity to produce more for less
What’s the economic term for the opposite of value-add?
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Depends on which side of the pond you are on.
Labour on one side, Democrat on the other
EU south of the Channel.
Pcar . . .
– Biden: Gun manufacturers responsible for murder.