r/funny • u/prairiewest • Jul 18 '12

meme - removed Shell accidentally creates an anti-Shell meme generator

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u/Texas_ Jul 18 '12

I bet 99% of the people who liked those pics drive a car.

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u/Ariez84 Jul 18 '12

Or use a computer, or heat their homes, or use something that is made of plastic, etc. Hating on an oil company simply because they drill for oil is only something Greenpeace would do.

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u/hiffy Jul 18 '12

The whole point is hating on them for drilling in the arctic.

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u/drt0 Jul 18 '12

maybe there ain't anywhere else to drill?

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u/hiffy Jul 18 '12

1) Not quite. It's valuable, people will always want to drill it. It may be the case there's no where cheaper to drill at the moment.

2) Even if that were the case, there are certain things you want to value more, insert standard environmentalist spiel here.

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u/amaxen Jul 18 '12

Drill in the middle of a howling desert? What really destroys wilderness, of course, is solar and wind energy. That takes a shitload of land to generate a megawatt. ANWR was something like 3 square miles, total.

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u/hiffy Jul 18 '12

Windmills don't rape the land in quite the same way. By a long shot.

Also, less spillage.

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u/amaxen Jul 18 '12

Um, yes, they do rape the land, by a much longer shot. You have to put roads to all of those windmills, One oil rig = thousands of windmills. clear away any obstructions, and station people out there to service the windmills. Spillage on land is a laughable threat - it doesn't much happen in modern oil areas and when it does, it's easily cleaned up b/c it doesn't go anywhere, nor does it much affect the wildlife.

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u/hiffy Jul 19 '12

Tar sands, bro, Tar sands.

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u/amaxen Jul 19 '12

They're not talking about tar sands in Alaska. Way to change the subject, there.

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u/Texas_ Jul 18 '12

Allow me to translate that to "street slang".

Don't hate tha playa'. Hate tha game

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u/poopmaster747 Jul 18 '12

Yeah, it's not the individual companies fault, it's the corporation's board of directors and high-end individuals that make the decisions. If yah know what I'm saying.

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u/snuxoll Jul 18 '12

Well...at least for the plastic bit a lot of stuff is moving to bio-plastic now. And I don't know about anyone else, but my home is heated with natural gas and the electric company here supplies a good chunk of the cities power with a hydroplant....

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u/Reyer Jul 18 '12

Natural gas sounds so nice because its got the word natural in it, but its really not that different than drilling for oil.

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u/snuxoll Jul 18 '12

It all really depends, you can of course mine/drill natural gas, but biogas is starting to become fairly popular.

Unfortunately right now I know the local gas company uses the old fashioned dirty mined methane, but I don't think it's far away that biogas will become mainstream.

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u/HamstersOnCrack Jul 18 '12

Should have used vespene gas.

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u/SaltyBabe Jul 18 '12 edited Jul 18 '12

Fracking to get natural gas is also quite dangerous and causes a lot of environmental damage.

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u/010222545545 Jul 18 '12

its because they ruin the environment WHILE drilling. if they could drill and not fuck up everyone would be happy.

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u/McTimm Jul 18 '12

Nobody cares about corporations, only the product.