CEO Darren Woods pointed a finger at the public for failing to solve the climate crisis — suggesting that consumers were to blame for the toxic carbon emissions produced by the oil giant.
Woods, who has been at the helm of Exxon — one of the world’s top contributors to planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions — since 2017, faulted customers who weren’t willing to pay for the cost of cleaner fossil fuels. “When are people going to willing to pay for carbon reduction?” asked Woods. “We have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon in it, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that.”‘s team at Yellow Dot Studios hit back at America’s largest oil and gas company .
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