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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
I made no such claim - or even a reference. Nice attempted deflection, and complete miss on getting the point.
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Deflection? You randomly brought up the environmental costs of lithium mining as something green energy advocates are manipulating the facts on yet can’t even be bothered to articulate why you believe that to be the case. If the end result is overall fewer net carbon emissions by mining for lithium and using it in batteries then what exactly are you claiming that they are misleading people about? More importantly why would that have any bearing on whether or not the O&G industry are or have been guilty of providing misinformation?
I don’t think it’s ok or a good thing when any industry misleads the public for their own financial gain even if you want to rationalize it by saying everyone does it. If you’re ok with that then all the power to you, but at least back up what you are using as a comparable. My comments aren’t intended to be some sort anti-oil and gas boogie man, in fact I think they need to be a big part of the solution going forward. I just don’t think they should they be immune to criticism for questionable things they’ve done and to be completely honest their influence on environmental issues isn’t even at the top of my list of political issues I wish they would refrain from using their power and financial resources to influence.
I don’t understand why it’s so hard for people to accept that the industry’s actions had an intended reaction and that whether or not someone ideologically agrees with their motives it makes little to no sense for the industry to have voluntarily spent money on said action if they didn’t have a goal in mind that would be financially beneficial to them.