Here’s one of the main reasons I haven’t added Google ads to my site in order to offset the price of producing this site. And why I’m still considering inconveniencing my readers by putting out an abbreviated RSS feed.
I was reading an email from The Sierra Club that included this
Quote of Note:
“Prophesies of a new wave of coal-fired generation have vaporized, while clean coal technologies… remain a decade away, or more.”
— Citigroup coal analysts report downgrading stocks of coal companies across the board, as reported in the Washington Post
Meanwhile the first Google ad next to the email contained a link to a site called Global Warming Facts, a part of The Heartland Institute, though the content on the site indicated that the the people running it don’t have clue about the difference between a “fact” and an “opinion,” an unsound, unsubstantiated opinion at that.
It didn’t take too much research , thanks to Google, to discover that a major contributor to the Heartland Institute was Exxon.
I’m beginning to wonder if I’m not paying too high of a price for my FREE Gmail account.