Why we hate the oil companies
That's the title of former Shell CEO John Hofmeister's new book
John Hofmeister has been a busy man of late. And why wouldn’t he be? The former Shell chief executive officer has a book to sell, after all. It’s called Why We Hate the Oil Companies, and you can read about it here.
Last night Hofmeister was on CBC Television’s Lang and O’Leary Exchange. He then showed up for a chat on the National, where he suggested supertankers could play a vital role in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon blowout and spill.
His book suggests oil companies have done a terrible job at marketing themselves as providers of an essential service. The message is similar to the mission of Citizens for Affordable Energy, an organiztion Hofmeister founded to “educate citizens and government officials about pragmatic, non-partisan affordable energy solutions, environmental protection, energy alternatives, efficiency, infrastructure, public policy, competitiveness, social cohesion, and quality of life.”
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