Thom Yorke Blasts Oil Companies | The Quietus

Thom Yorke Blasts Oil Companies

"Dumbass", quoth the Oxfordian in foreign tongue

Thom Yorke has had a rant about the oil industry in a blog post on the Radiohead website.

Linking to the Stop Global Warming Petition, Yorke observes that President Obama is a signatory, and remarks "currently there is talk of a climate change bill in the US similair to the one we have passed in the UK."

"That’s a BIG deal," he enthuses, but adds, "I have been reading how the oil industry is investing millions of dollars in a PR campaign against it! How utterly dumbass is that? How do these people look their children in the eye?"

Concluding, Yorke remarks, "in [sic] have now stepped down from todays soapbox. byebye"

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