{"id":67068,"date":"2024-05-17T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=67068"},"modified":"2025-07-02T09:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:34:11","slug":"6-lies-fossil-fuel-companies-tell-to-continue-business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/67068\/6-lies-fossil-fuel-companies-tell-to-continue-business-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"6 lies fossil fuel companies tell to continue business as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every time they are in the spotlight for the disastrous effects of their business, fossil fuel companies serve up the same old fraudulent arguments. Tired of their bogus excuses? So are we. Here are their most common lies and the facts to counter them.<\/p>\n\n

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Murray Auchincloss, BP, in a retouched image (left). Local resident during floods in Philippines (right).
Disclaimer: Images of CEOs used in this campaign are staged and doctored for illustrative purposes. Illustrations are created without the use of generative AI.
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False Excuse #1: “We’re only responding to consumer demand”<\/h3>\n\n

This is one of the classic arguments for climate inaction from fossil fuel companies: deflecting their responsibilities onto consumers rather than engaging in a real energy transition. No altruistic desire to meet the needs of the population here. They are simply prioritising their profits (in 2023, while people struggled to pay their energy bills, fossil fuel companies made record-breaking profits<\/a>) and betting on the profitability of oil and gas<\/a>, at the expense of the environment, the climate, and our health.<\/p>\n\n

They are even doing everything they can to keep us addicted to gas. In Europe, fossil fuel companies have cynically used the war in Ukraine<\/a> and exploited fears of an energy crisis to push fossil gas as the only solution to avoid it, and con European states into massive, unnecessary investments. We\u2019ve seen this with TotalEnergies\u2019 LNG terminal in France<\/a>, or OMV\u2019s Neptun Deep gas drilling project in Romania<\/a>, among other projects.<\/p>\n\n

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