<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“There is <b style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">no doubt</b> that increases in fossil fuel usage and decreases in forest cover are aggravating the potential problem of increased CO2 in the atmosphere.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">—Excerpt from a 1980 Imperial Oil internal report. The Exxon subsidiary concluded as far back as 1991 that <a href="https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/18816296.23326/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9uZXdzL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMTktMTItMDQvYW4tZXh4b24tb3duZWQtZmlybS1maWd1cmVkLW91dC1ob3ctdG8tY3VyYi1jbzItaW4tMTk5MT91dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fdGVybT0xOTEyMDUmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPWNsaW1hdGVjaGFuZ2Vk/58ffbaf7dd4c29967b8b4646Bdadde405" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><i class="">curbing global warming would require a high carbon tax</i></span></a>.</span></div></body></html>