[CaptainYooh]

Originally Posted by Table 5

• Get used to good life, but forget why and how we got there.
• Spend decades vilifying fossil fuel as evil.
• Ignore basic laws of economics and think that if you kill supply, it will reduce demand, ignoring global growth.
• Fail to realize fossil fuels are critical to everything we do…from food production to basic materials, and that if the price of energy goes up, so does production of literally everything.
• Fight/protest all new development and exploration at every step to score political points. Turn communities against each other.
• Starve own highly regulated industry, rely on shady countries/cartels instead… act outraged when they don’t share your beliefs and do what you want.
• Watch large institutions and funds make big ESG show about no longer investing in fossil fuels. Prioritize putting money into apps instead.
• Think renewables will solve everything, failing to realize they are built on a backbone of fossil fuels. Ignore lessons from countries like Germany that actively went in on renewables, and now have sky high energy prices…and still rely on coal power.
• Only focus on environmental cost, fail to consider humanitarian/monetary/political ones. Forget how revolutions start.
• Ignore decade long bear market in energy… then accuse everyone of being greedy after relatively small uptick. Ignore two decades of record profits of tech boom.
• Talk of profit taxes and nationalization, ignoring lessons of past and further stunting new supply.

Why oil/inflation so high?!?? Damn greedy corporations.

This post deserves to be quoted several times, just to be re-read. So many form their world views today based entirely on YouTube and Instagram videos.