“They can sit around in the dark and talk about how it worked out,” Ken Golden, commercial adviser for Exxon, said from the podium at an oil conference in San Antonio. He prefaced his comment by saying it was his personal view, and that it wasn’t Exxon’s official response. Mr. Golden was giving a speech at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference that looked at Exxon’s energy outlook to 2040, detailing long-term energy trends. The Exxon official said the company is concerned about the risks climate change poses, and that it encourages the use of renewable and other alternative fuels. But he said, for example, that even while the use of wind and solar power will rise faster than any other energy source through 2040, those two will still amount to less than 3% of total energy use. “There are billions of people who need to read, need to learn, […]