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Originally Posted by blankall
I didn't say anything about CO2 and tail pipe emissions, only that it doesn't take a genius to see that whatever is coming out of the tail pipe is likely bad for the environment. People have been willfully choosing to harm the environment through their own behaviour, for their own convenience, not because they believed an oil companies disinformation no the subject. Passing the blame to the oil companies because you don't like to take the bus or want to travel abroad is BS.
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Do you seriously think that oil companies have had no influence on government policies regarding energy? There are tons of ways that governments could have reduced emissions without people needing to dramatically change their behavior (higher fuel efficiency standards for vehicles or increased investment in nuclear, hydro, renewables, etc), but those things directly cut into the profits of energy companies so they did whatever they could to prevent that. There's a reason that energy companies routinely donate 5-10x as much to Republican Presidential candidates compared to Democratic ones and why they spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year on lobbying.