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‘ALL OF OUR TRICKS WORKED’: SPOOF EXXONMOBIL AD NAILS JUST HOW
EASY IT’S BEEN FOR BIG OIL  
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Brett Wilkins
July 9, 2024
Common Dreams
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_ "Do you have any idea how easy it is to get you off our backs with
a little bullsh*t about your responsibilities to the planet?" _

, The New York Times

 

A new parody ExxonMobil
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Tuesday by a group founded by Adam McKay—the Academy Award-winning
writer and director of the blockbuster doomsday climate comedy _Don't
Look Up_—mocks humanity for letting Big Oil get away with causing
one of the biggest existential threats of all time.

"There's a world we all want to live in again. A world where the air
is pure and crisp and clean and fills your lungs with joy. A world
where you can drink water from any river or creek and your house will
still be there tomorrow if it rains," the narrator of Yellow Dot
Studio's latest parody video
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clip. "Here at Exxon, we believe in that world, and we're working hard
to make sure that our customers believe that we believe in that
world."

"We understand the road has been bumpy, and we haven't always done the
best we could," he says over footage of the Exxon _Valdez_ disaster,
in which more than 10 million gallons of crude oil were spilled in
Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989.

The voice-over continues:

Sure, our own scientists accurately predicted
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change 60 years ago. But we didn't want you to know about it. That's
why we spent billions on ads and media manipulation covering it up,
then we rigged the government so leaders in both parties would do our
bidding, and yes, we did everything in our power to block clean energy
tech so we could keep force-feeding you oil via expanding global
infrastructure, monstrous vehicles, and disposable plastics and
chemicals that don't go away. Ever.

The video follows the recent conclusion
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a bicameral Senate investigation into Big Oil's decades of spreading
climate disinformation and obstructing a green transition—after
which lawmakers called on the U.S. Department of Justice to
investigate fossil fuel giants. There is also a nascent movement
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local prosecutors to go after the oil and gas industry for
climate-related deaths.

"And yes, every now and then you squawk about how evil we are, but
then we drop gas prices a nickel and you shut right back up," the
narrator says. "Do you have any idea how easy it is to get you off our
backs with a little bullshit about your responsibilities to the
planet? About your carbon footprint? Pretending plastic recycling
actually makes a difference?"

"You're letting us get away with it, you dumb bitches" he adds
mockingly. "All of our tricks worked. The world is a burning,
out-of-control charnel house. The last generation to die of old age
has already been born, and you still let oil executives freely show
their face in public."

"We're just one company but you're 7 billion people," the video
concludes. "Get off your asses and do something, you fucking
peasants!"

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