Tag Archives: 1974

1974 Mobil Senior VP Dayton Clewell speech to MIT Alumni Advisory Council

This document is a 1974 speech by Senior Vice President of Mobil, Dayton Clewell, to the MIT Alumni Advisory Council titled, “Gasoline Supply and Emission Control: A Case Study of Today’s Complex Inter-Relationships.” Clewell blames the 1970s energy crisis on climate scientists and the “sensation loving public.” Clewell urges Congress to freeze the 1974 emission […]

1973 News Release “Mobil President Attacks Ford Foundation”

This document contains Mobil President, William P. Tavoulareas’ passionate response to the Ford Foundation’s “Energy Policy Project Preliminary Report,” which he calls biased and dangerous. The “Energy Policy Project” was created by the Ford Foundation in 1972 to “prepare an informed and reasoned base for a national energy policy.” In his attack, Tavoulareas states that the Ford […]