Exxon Mobil and Chevron are spending tens of billions of dollars buying oil and gas assets, betting that the International Energy Agency’s predictions of declining oil demand are wrong.
To these huge companies, the longer term doesn’t matter much right now: if it pans out, they’ll celebrate; if it doesn’t, some gullible politician will bail them out and they’ll celebrate anyway. However, they’re publicly-traded and thus ruled by quarterly profits. (Apparently saying the obvious here, multiple of the top comments at NYT read similarly…)
To these huge companies, the longer term doesn’t matter much right now: if it pans out, they’ll celebrate; if it doesn’t, some gullible politician will bail them out and they’ll celebrate anyway. However, they’re publicly-traded and thus ruled by quarterly profits. (Apparently saying the obvious here, multiple of the top comments at NYT read similarly…)