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Originally Posted by Fuzz
So we have all known for 30 years the seriousness. Do you know how flacid it comes across to stamp your feet and still blame oil companies after all this time? We are the ones consuming it, precisely because it is cheap and easy. If there was a cheap and easy alternative, we would have switched. There isn't, and it isn't the fault of the oil companies. It's the fault of simple irrefutable physics and chemistry. Without oil, our lives would be much harder and more expensive.
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It isn't cheap. We are not pricing in the externalities of it's use. And when someone tries to do that, with say a carbon tax, the entire industry loses it's mind and spends millions fighting it. To the point where even our governments are spending millions and end up fighting cartoon characters who might be anti-oil.
You talk about not having a better alternative, but the reason we don't is directly because of the oil companies lobbying against those alternatives.
We are a drug user and they are our pushers. And anytime someone else tries to help us break the addiction, they get knifed by the pusher. And somehow the pusher is absolved of any wrongdoing because they are just trying to make their profits?