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American journalist Jim Lehrer questions Chevron Corporation’s Vice Chairman Peter Robertson as to why record profits for the oil industry have not resulted in lower gas prices for consumers.
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A Conversation About Oil with Chevron’s Peter J. Robertson and Jim Lehrer in discussion at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival.
Some of the most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers and other leaders drawn from myriad fields and from across the country and around the world all gathered in a single place – to teach, speak, lead, question, and answer at the 2006 Aspen Ideas Festival. Throughout the week, they all interacted with an audience of thoughtful people who stepped back from their day-to-day routines to delve deeply into a world of ideas, thought, and discussion.
Jim Lehrer is the anchor and executive editor of PBSs The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He came to Washington with PBS in 1972, teaming with Robert MacNeil in 1973 to cover the Senate Watergate hearings. They began in 1975 what became The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, and, in 1983, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, the first 60-minute evening news program on television. When MacNeil retired in 1995, the program was renamed The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Lehrer has been honored with numerous awards for journalism, including a presidential National Humanities Medal in 1999. In the last five presidential elections, he moderated ten of the nationally televised candidate debates. Lehrer has written 16 novels. His latest, The Phony Marine, was published in November 2006. He also has written two memoirs and three plays. His 17th novel, Eureka, will be published in fall 2007.
Peter J. Robertson is vice chairman of the board of directors for Chevron Corp., responsible for strategic planning, policy, government and public affairs, human resources, and corporate compliance. Previously, he directed the companys worldwide exploration, production, and global gas businesses. He was president of Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc., president of Chevron USA, and president of Warren Petroleum Co., Chevrons former natural gas liquids subsidiary. He chairs the US Energy ociation and is a past director of Sasol Chevron Holdings Ltd., Dynegy Inc., and Caltex Petroleum Corp. A native of Edinburgh, Scotland, he graduated from Edinburgh University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
Look at all the …
Look at all the celebs who wear ribbons and are “against AIDS” yet don’t come out and say homosexuality is a bad choice as is sharing needles. I call that wearing it as a style statement,
TImber companies do lots to preserve forests as that is their future. And look at how the oil companies built the AK pipeline to be envrionmentally friendly. They fight stupid regulations of which there are plenty, but not all of them.
BTW: I just consider Algore a hypocrite above all else.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
I don’t know a …
I don’t know a single person who just walks around wearing a ribbon for AIDS. I do know plenty of people who wear AIDS ribbons because they know someone who has AIDS or has died from AIDS. Are they making a “style statement”?
You are crazy to think that huge corporations like timber and oil spend money willingly to protect the environment and consumers. They fight tooth and nail all regulations. Oil companies pay more in fines every year than most companies profit. Al Gore is a Christian, btw.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
If you just walk …
If you just walk around wearing a ribbon to say “I care” I will call it what it is–a style statement. No one is “in favor” of AIDS.
You have to define on making money taking precedence over the envrioment. But the way most envrionmental types act, I believe the timber, oil, etc. companies know more about good envrionmental practices than Al Gore for example.
“Envrionmentalism” has become a religion for atheists.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
That’s pretty low …
That’s pretty low calling support for curing AIDS a “style statement”. Might as well just call human compassion and world peace a “style statement” too. Do you think making money takes precedent over protecting our environment? That is the problem we need to fix!
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
I maintain that …
I maintain that Hybrida are a “style statement” like wearing an AIDS Ribbon. It doesn’t do anything in reality, but the wearer (driver) feels good.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
the fact that OPEC …
the fact that OPEC exists is demeaning to the term “free market”. If you control supply, you control the price, because there will always be some demand for oil in the world.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
You are missing the …
You are missing the point. People buy hybrids for many reason, and the cost is not one of them. They are reasons like reducing carbon pollution, making the world a safer, healthier place, being able to utilize the carpool lane without any passengers, and yes, getting 50MPG is not bad. If it was all about money, there would be no green energy movement. Yes, the batteries are the catch22, but that is new technology that needs time to mature.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
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August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
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August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
Cool man you seem …
Cool man you seem to know best
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
After 120yrs of an …
After 120yrs of an oil-based economy I’m not sure I could believe any theory – good news or bad news. (the same thing happened with organized religion)
ANY theory backed by industry (with vested interests in the outcome) should be suspect. Exxon would never go public and say, “oil accretes and we’ll never run out”.
I come from a back-water corner of science (cartography) and I think the current theory is too self-serving or industry-friendly. It’s falsifiable and not verifiable enough.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
I’m not an expert …
I’m not an expert but I know a little about how oil is formed. Prehistoric Zooplankton and and algae would settle to the bottom of lakes and die. Then sediment would form over it and over time it would compress and heat and a chemical reaction causes the fossilized remains to turn into the prerequisite to oil. Then volcanic and tectonic activity first creates oil, then tectonic shifts can move pockets of oil to different depths, sometimes under the ocean or in tar sands. Hope that helps…
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
Gee Peter, remember …
Gee Peter, remember that old saying about oranges….
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
you should read a …
you should read a book on game theory.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
there is not more …
there is not more oil but there is a drop in demand.
if there are 100 barrels of oil on the market and the public wants to buy 101 barrels of oil, the price of oil is going to be bid up until the buyer wanting the 101st barrel of oil backs out of the market. as the world economy expanded from 2004-2008, production capacity was strained, thus pushing prices up.
supply and demand is a two way street. Sorry to confront your paranoia, but there is no connection with the president from texas.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
No rational person …
No rational person should be driving a hybrid. Payoff is like 100K miles and much envrionmental damage done making the batteries.
Oil companies are not “greedy” as making the highest possible profit is the job of the CEO and management. If you think gas costs too much, don’t buy any.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
so what now prices …
so what now prices are down all of a sudden there is more oil..how about this our texas oil man president is a lame duck and all of a sudden price drop..think there is a connection?
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
If he’s full of …
If he’s full of , and supply isn’t constrained (which it undoubtedly is…), then where is the indictment against the oil companies for price-gouging? You know there’d be one if there was grounds for one. Their profit margin is 8-10%, Google’s is 25%
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
What an insightful …
What an insightful response…
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
If oil is dead …
If oil is dead dinosaurs – howcome we find oil under the ocean ? Science says the (granite) continents are 5B yrs old and (basalt) ocean floors are 65M to 0yrs old. We aren’t being given the full picture. What is oil ? How do we know the estimates (used to jack the price) are correct ? It’s price-fixing and junk science. The Earth accretes oil (like water) and the oil industry “estimates” are deliberately flawed. Why ? I can think of hundreds of billions of reasons why.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
can u lie thru ur …
can u lie thru ur teeth any harder..lieing
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
He’s full of , …
He’s full of , Notice that this event is sponsered by Chevron oil.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
We’d all be driving …
We’d all be driving hybrids and other more efficient cars by now if the oil companies didn’t pay people off who make these kinds of cars. Bottom line is that oil companies are just plain greedy. The oil companies give money to oil producing countries like Saudi Arabia. Countries that hate us. It’s the oil companies that are puting our security at risk when giving money to these countries. There was a man in California who ended up missing after trying to invent a better carborator.
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
FUCKIN LIAR!!!
IN LIAR!!!
August 9th, 2009 at 5:41 am
There is always …
There is always someone on you tube like yourself who likes to start World War III. You are all talk, ha ha ha!!! You ARE a POCKET PROTECTING NERD trying to be tough! Take it to my face you ANTISEMITIC PUNK!!!