The Exxon Mobil Company has held the lease on CT’s highway rest stops for thirty years. Now they are leaving, the question of who pays for the cleanup caused by leaking fuel storage tanks is, of course, contentious. Until today, it appeared taxpayers were expected to be on the hook. Exxon Mobil must’ve gotten wind that this cartoon was going to appear in Sunday’s paper and simply buckled under the raw humiliation and intense pressure.
Connecticut’s governor-elect, Dannel Malloy, is planning a push for the state to move to a thrilling practice known as “generally accepted accounting methods” (GAAP.) Which is a very grown up way of saying that important things that require being counted, like state budgets, will be calculated using regular math. Gulp.
