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Originally Posted by Bunk
It seems as though a lot of the world feels about oil the way a lot of Albertans feel about coal mining on the Eastern Slopes.
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I'm going to disagree about your comment re: world oil. What we hear in the media narrative is heavily biased w.r.t. fossil fuels. Yes, certainly there is a lot of focus on developing other means of energy however that at present represents but a small fraction of what hydrocarbons provide to the world. The evidence that fossil fuels are not dead rests in the huge developments and expansions throughout NOT-North America. The BILLIONS that the Russians are spending, the BILLIONS that the Chinese, etc etc... So yes there will be a slow shift, but it's certainly not going to shift radically over a couple years.
What really pains me is that fossil fuels are being artificially penalized economically and otherwise (shaming), and some non-fossil fuels are being heavily propped up (economically, socially). Is this truly how a democratic and properly functioning capitalist society is supposed to work?