Business 101
Trey Garrison defends Big Oil and ridicules Congress in a condescending blog item titled, "Exxon Mobil Tries Again to Explain Business 101 to House Members." In fact, Congress understands business better than Garrison himself does.
Garrison has a childhood lemonade stand understanding of economics. Little Trey sits on the sidewalk, selling summer refreshment and pocketing the revenue, pleased with his entrepreneurship. Meanwhile, Mom buys the table and chair, the pitcher, the lemonade mix, the water and refrigerator to make the ice cubes, the cardboard and markers for signs, keeps the neighborhood bully away and cleans up the mess afterwards.
In the case of Big Oil, Mom is the American taxpayer who has spent a trillion dollars protecting Big Oil's economic investment in the Middle East. The American taxpayer has a huge stake in that business, whether or not Exxon Mobil admits it and whether or not shills like Trey Garrison understand it.
Garrison approvingly quotes Jeroen van der Veer, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, as saying "There is no point to spend billions of dollars on [alternative] technology that is too expensive for consumers." No, not if we can persuade the America taxpayer to keep spending a trillion dollars (and thousands of lives) providing military protection for Big Oil's business interests in the Persian Gulf.
And not if a few million in marketing and public relations can win press coverage attacking anyone who questions Big Oil. If Congress holds hearings on how to bring the skyrocketing cost of gasoline down, we can count on Trey Garrison to mock Congress. Maybe mock science, too, with a slap at "the chimera of anthropogenic global warming." It's all part of how business works. Just don't expect to read about it in Trey Garrison's Business 101 textbook based on that childhood lemonade stand.
2 comments:
When did DallasBLog go out of business. Good riddance, but I missed the press release.
DallasBlog is still in business (term used loosely), but it's seen better days (term used loosely). Scott Bennett was described as a "former" co-owner on a Frontburner blog posting. Tom Pauken is feeding at the public trough again, having taken a patronage job in Austin from his friend Rick Perry. Trey Garrison and Sam Merten (the only two reporters who ever seemed to do any original reporting at DallasBlog) have long since moved on to other jobs. And Rufus Shaw is dead. And so it goes.
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