Rep. Ro Khanna: The Goal Is To Get Exxon and Other Companies Admit That They Made Mistakes in the Past

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KHANNA: “I mean that goal isn't to trap Darren Woods or these CEOs, the goal is to get them to admit that they made mistakes in the past and commit to change going forward? Now since we started these hearings there had been two or three new pledges by each of these companies. Here’s what’s important to keep in mind, there’s a huge, huge difference between the European companies, one of which does has -- have a -- a woman as CEO and the American companies, Exxon and Chevron. The European companies BP and shell aren’t perfect, but at least they’re talking about emissions reduction for all the oil they sell. The American companies are saying well, we'll reduce the emissions for the oil we produce, but we aren’t going to do anything about the oil we actually sell. It would be as if an auto making company says well we’re going to have fuel efficiency in our plants, but it doesn’t matter what the fuel efficiency of the cars themselves are. That’s not a good faith effort. We need these companies to say, we’re going to cut emissions for the actual oil we sell and consumers use.”