Are Oil companies pro environment and which party gets the majority of their financial support?

Answer 1

AHHHH NO!!! Maybe Hugo Chavez in Venezuela is. Exxon Mobil hasn't ever paid the fine for the Valdez oil spill, and British Petroleum had another oil spill in Alaska that shut down their pipeline over lack of maintenance.

Answer 2

Well almost no company that wants to stay in business is pro-environment first, they might have it high on the list but Pro-ME is the top concern. Overall oil companies are in it for the large amounts of money and make symbolic actions to the environmental lobbies or when an oil tanker crashes and spills all its oil into the coastal waters. Now I am not saying that what they are doing is wrong (and a little help with the environment is better than nothing), but it is the way the world works.

As for who gets financial support, most of the major domestic companies and the oil producing countries in the middle east (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and yes, even Iran and Iraq{back when they were able to extract it before the war}) pay both major parties with the split about 2/3 Republicans and 1/3 Democrats. Then there is Sultan of Burnai, several smaller middle-eastern countries and of course Chavez and the government run company Citgo which are much more in favor of the Democrats. So really pick your poison.

Answer 3

Why would oil companies be pro environment. No major corporation is pro environment because it is easier to pollute the earth than clean up your own messes.I would assume both parties get alot of money from them.However I think they must really be showing the republicans love right now what with all the crooked energy bills that passed. Although on the other hand the oil companies cant be too happy with hugo chavez making them actually pay a decent amount of royalties to venezuela for drilling oil there. I mean it was so much easier when they could just rape that country economically and give them nothing, god knows they dont make enough as it is.......Oh wait....Is that why the Bush administration has a problem with Chavez?

Answer 4

Pro environment is a perverted term. We are a growing society and we need more and more energy, yet the environmentalists block drilling in ANWAR because some animal may be bothered. In the real world, we must take care of ourselves. The same people who vote for Democrats and liberal Republicans who vote against ANWAR are the ones that complain about gas prices.

With saying that, oil companies are aware of the environment and try to respect it. Drilling for oil is much cleaner that it was 10 years ago.

Any big business donates money to both parties. This is definitely true for public companies.

Answer 5

Ahhh, your questions brings me back to the great Energy company ads. There was the classic Chevron "do people care, people do . ." ad campaign explaining why it was so great for the environment to leave their old refinery crap in the ocean to create reefs. I liked the Williams ad that featured their commitment to nature by ending their ad with a wide shot of their buried natural gas pipeline. The shot showed a wide clear cut along the mountains. Burying the pipeline was the pro-nature part. And of course there is the ongoing "clean" coal campaign featuring all the cute kids and feel good music.

Because energy companies are so big, powerful, and influential among the world's governments, their marketing departments amount to propaganda divisions. They are designed to change minds about the environment so that people will vote in the companies' interest. Multinational corporations corrupt democratic processes and should be expelled from the political arena.

Answer 6

Oil companie sios to the environment what water is to fire.
Over all the democrats and republicans are about equal in receiving funds from oil companies.

Answer 7

They do their best to preserve environment.
The party they think will come to power or the party in power get the financial support if they need it.