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Originally Posted by Locke
People that think 'Big Oil' are suppressing the required technology are just conspiracy theorists that think 'The Science is In' and that vaccines cause autism and all that, Big Oil would have to have bought off literally everyone. Sure, they might lobby for some of it, but they arent hiding future tech in a bunker somewhere.
We'd need to pave Alberta with Solar Panels and then plant Wind Turbines on top of them and we'd still come nowhere close and that doesnt even account for the sheer volume of oil and oil-related products required to construct all of that.
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If I were in "big oil" and wanted to suppress technology, I might lobby a federal government to cut certain science programs that might show some of my practices in a negative light.