The Petroleum Industry comprised 45% of Fortune's Global Top 20 corporations in 2009, with total combined revenues of $2,545,147 Million ... a number represented as 2.54515E+12 in an Excel spreadsheet... LARGE.
Does a corporation have a MORAL obligation to fund research into the treatment of a disease that is scientifically proven to be caused by exposure to its product?
Who Knew? Did you ever hear of the Greenpoint Oil Spill? Although not in New Jersey, if you click on the google map picture to the right of this blog, you will see that Brooklyn is buried beneath that concentration of red dots ( aka "HUGE big red blob" of petroleum sites.) Did you know that "Greenpoint has the highest pancreatic cancer rate in the nation?" http://www.blockmagazine.com/block_stock_barrel.php?title=lstrongggreenpoint_oil_spill_part_iii_th&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
