Thorns and Roses

March 4 2007 by Chief Executive


ROSE€¦

To CLAIBORNE DEMING, CEO of Murphy Oil, which is putting up $50 million for college scholarships for nearly all high school graduates in its working-class hometown of El Dorado, Ark., over the next 20 years. According to CNN, students at El Dorado HS Assembly screamed and applauded when the nation’s ninth largest refiner unveiled the program. Some wept.

THORN€¦

To HILLARY CLINTON for her promise, if elected President, to “take away those oil company profits” from the industry and invest them in renewable energy. Didn’t Jimmy Carter already try this in the 1970s and trigger oil shortages as a result?