Myron the Cavalier

Myron's bollocks is getting thin on the ground these days. It's unclear what he is doing for a living to account for his thin slice of Exxon's blood money, I mean profits.

Recently he was quoted in The Cavalier Daily. No. Sorry. That's the one about driving illustrated with the same picture. Try here, where Myron is quoted talking about "our aging and inadequate energy infrastructure (which) is stretched to the limit".

Indeed. Let's just review those profits again. Hmm. That's a lot of money. Over the past five years, I ask you, were the oil companies investing their income in improved infrastructure and, for example, preparing for wholly predictable oncoming "natural cycle" of hurricane activity? No. It was those pesky Greens who single-handedly, against the whole corpocracy, stopped Exxon from expanding responsibly and forced them to cash out billions of dollars into the trousers of the rich and pay people like Myron Ebell to explain why it was all completely reasonable. That's what these guys do when they're free and unconstrained.

That money is gone now. Wasted. The rich have taken it all and these days they can't be taxed. The same old managers running the show tell us to cough up more dough to pay for their "short sightedness". Look, idiot columnists like Allan Cruickshanks can write garbage about the "lack of insight" of anyone who knows what goes down when oil companies are given more freedom, and votes accordingly, but it doesn't make it true.

Stop Press: Myron's written to the Financial Times. He gives the usual hollow prescription of "Free markets, private property, and the rule of law" for leading to "wealthier and technologically more creative societies" which are going to be "resiliant enough to handle environmental challenges".

What sort of resiliance does he have in mind that will withstand 20 foot of water? A yacht?