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July 28, 2008
Environmentalist Gnats Pester the Nats
No matter how much you pander to moonbats, they will never be satisfied:
When the Washington Nationals' season opened in March, the team unveiled a stadium any environmentalist could love — the country's first certified green major professional sports stadium, with energy-conserving lights and water-conserving plumbing.
Now, the team is the focus of protests from environmentalists who say their issue is not with the stadium, but with the Nationals' advertising relationship with the oil giant ExxonMobil.
The company's logo appears prominently on the left-field wall and is frequently featured on the stadium's scoreboard.
Despite the stadium's recognition for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design by the U.S. Green Building Council, ExxonMobil's involvement has erased any good will, say the leaders of Strike Out Exxon, a combination of environmental, civic and religious groups. The groups want the Nationals to end their advertising arrangement with the company.
According to the depraved upside-down morality of liberals, corporations that provide the energy needed for our civilization to run are evil and must be shunned. No doubt ads for escort services, abortion mills, or the local mosque would be fine, but ExxonMobil is beyond the pale, despite its assistance in making Nationals Park so eco-friendly.
Imagine trying to reason with these militant lunatics.
On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at July 28, 2008 10:21 AM
Comments
Yeah, but if the old-time environmentalists ever stopped whining, they wouldn't be able to hit up their deluded followers for donations. And if the money dried up, they'd have to give up professional tree-hugging and get real jobs. How long do you think they'd last at those?
The old-style "stop all development of everything everywhere" brand of environmentalism has to be sh1t-canned. What we need is a New Environmentalism, a sensible environmentalism that says "Let's develop and advance while everything practical to keep the environment clean when we do it." Replace mindless activism with sensible pragmatism.
Posted by: V the K at July 28, 2008 10:54 AM
The first mistake is trying to reason with eco terrorists to start with.
Their goal is not clean environment, the goals is expanding their personal influence.
Power though influence is the narcotic of these elitists. When you let them change
Even a small part of your behavior, they will only want for more.
Posted by: Mark -S- at July 28, 2008 10:57 AM
Posted by: V the K at July 28, 2008 11:28 AM
...Strike Out Exxon, a combination of environmental, civic and religious groups.
Why the hell does a religious group care what ExxonMobil does? Or a civic group, for that matter? If your religion is polar-bear worship or global warming, maybe.
If the environmentalists really want to live like it's the stone age, we can accommodate them: we'll fill as many big honkin' 747s with them as we can and we'll send them all to Zimbabwe. It's the last big carbon footprint they'll ever have to worry about leaving. Then they can live as they would have all of us live, in an agrarian socialist paradise. Oh I forgot, they want the rest of us to live like that, not them.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 28, 2008 12:15 PM
Then these people obviously won't mind paying the difference in ticket prices that would have to be made up if Exxon was dumped as a sponsor. We're all told that we need to do our part by paying through the nose...I'm sure they're no different, right?
Posted by: Pam at July 28, 2008 12:28 PM
Well call me crazy but I LIKE the oil companies (attention liberals: no, I don't work for them or own stock in them). Thanks to oil companies, I can fuel up my car and take trips on airplanes.
I'd like to see all of these anti-oil company hippies go without anything that requires oil. Maybe they'd change their tune.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 28, 2008 2:54 PM
This is commendable of Exxon. They just got their $2 billion judgement tossed out for the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska back in 1989. So instead of environmental restoration in Alaska or helping fishermen restore their livelihoods, they're using that money for public relations in a baseball stadium. It's not about environmentalism, boys. It's about feeling good about Exxon.
WRITE IN QUAYLE/CONDI '08 -- FEELING GOOD ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE
Posted by: Dan Quayle at July 28, 2008 4:57 PM
Guys... don't do it... resist the urge.. just... RESIST THE URGE...
Posted by: Thulsa Doom at July 28, 2008 6:37 PM
I say we all boycott Exxon and all other oil companies! Boycott fossil fuels! Use only renewable energy!
Let's go back to the good old days of HUNTING WHALES FOR THEIR OIL, like our ancestors did before petroleum became the rage!
Go Greennuts!
Posted by: BURNING HOT at July 28, 2008 7:20 PM
What really burns these people is not that the stadium is named after an oil-producing organization, but that it is named after an organization that makes a profit. Locally,the construction of our new ( as of 1994) museum was sponsored by Jay Van Andel, one of the founders of Amway. As a result the museum was called the Van Andel Museum. There were howls of protest from the usual quarters. They wanted to call the new museum the "People's Museum", while still taking Van Andel's money to build the project.
Posted by: James McEnanly at July 28, 2008 7:49 PM
Exxon has been berry, berry good to me!
Posted by: Mockinbird at July 29, 2008 2:18 PM
