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Why should they bother?
Big oil's contributtions are paltry because they have already won the war (on the environment). Americans are as committed as ever to wasting every last drop of oil driving around and purchasing imported consumables. There are no threats to fossil-fool companies on the political horizon like, say, individual carbon quotas.
In fact, we can't even get our traffic laws enforced in a manner that would make our roads safe enough to walk and cycle on. Based on hundreds of interviews that I have conducted, a lack of safety is the number one reason most people give for refusing to walk/cycle locally. Twenty-five percent of all trips are less than one mile but seventy-five percent of these trips are done by fossil-fool powered wheelchairs.