WataugaWatch: Boycott Exxon Mobil

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Boycott Exxon Mobil

After the Exxon Valdez disaster, I took out my Exxon card and cut it into tiny pieces and haven't bought that brand of petrol since. Exxon Mobil, thanks to my personal boycott, no doubt, is now the nation's largest oil company. A coalition of groups is mounting a boycott against it for its poo-poohing of global warming and its unseemly salivation over drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge. My question to the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Move-On.org Political Action and the other groups forming the boycott: What took you so long?

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J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
The views expressed on WataugaWatch are solely those of J.W. Williamson or individual contributors and are not necessarily shared nor endorsed by the Watauga County Democratic Party nor by any other adults of sound mind in this or any other universe.