Think past oil, Rockefeller kin tell Exxon - Environment - MSNBC.com Quote:
Members of the Rockefeller family, descended from the founder of what became Exxon Mobil Corp., challenged the oil giant Wednesday to focus more on renewable sources of energy.
They also seek to establish a task force study of the consequences of global warming on poor economies, and called on Exxon to reduce greenhouse gas emission at its own operations.
Exxon is "profiting in the short term from investments and decisions made many years ago by focusing on the narrow path that ignores the rapidly shifting energy landscape around the world, including developing nations," said Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, a great granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller.
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John D. Rockefeller's heirs urge Exxon Mobil to play nicer. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
The Rockefellers basically created Exxon Mobil (made Standard Oil, where Exxon comes from), so this push could get Exxon to move to other kinds of energy. This is incredibly rare for the Rockefellers and it seems like this pubic move was a last resort. Do you think this will get Exxon to change? Is this good? Bad?
They could get the largest oil company to move towards alternative fuel.