Last episode, we talked about the fossil fuel industry's plan to make up for any revenue

it might lose as the world transitions away from its products in the residential and transport

sectors.

Petra chemicals has become a kind of mantra for the oil industry.

Thank goodness for petra chemicals because that's where all the growth lies.

And it's quite interesting if you take the data now from BP and the IAA, probably the

two leading forecasters of the entire system, then from our calculations about half the

growth of oil demand at the next 20 years in the IAA numbers is actually from plastics

and surprisingly enough, it's basically all of the growth in oil demand.

Today, we're going to dig a bit further into the industry's plan on this front because

just a couple weeks before that episode came out, a team of journalists from the UK revealed

the fruits of an undercover investigation they've been running for years.

A video and a company article in which two former high-level lobbyists for ExxonMobile

walked through every step of how the company messages and lobbies on climate policy and

environmental regulations.

I'm Lawrence Carter.

I'm an investigative reporter for Unearthed, which is a investigative journalism project

from the buy-creen based in the UK.

Awesome.

And I'm going to play it a little bit from the video that you guys released so that anyone

who hasn't seen it yet will get a bit of a believer for it.

This is Keith McCoy, one of ExxonMobile's top Capitol Hill lobbyists.

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