[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by Leondros

Environmentalists and propaganda put us in a precarious situation when it comes to energy security in the Western world.

Well this is completely inaccurate. The fossil fuel industry has been well aware of the damage they have been doing, since the 40s, and have been an active participant in establishing a cottage industry that would create propaganda to hide these facts and create counter narratives to conflate the issue of global warming/climate change. If the fossil fuel companies had been more focused on finding better solutions to problems and spent the money on R&D rather than on this propaganda campaign we would be way closer to a possible solution. Make no mistake, the car manufacturers have been co-conspirators in this criminal enterprise and also earn the amount of flak they take. Profit has been the primary driver for both of these industries and only an outside disruptor forced their hands. The problem is greed and not giving a #### about the future of this planet, and that lands at the feet of the two industries identified and the corrupt politicians who took money while ignoring the science behind the problems.

Government and regulators who don't understand the energy ecosystem as a whole are making decisions based off of knee jerk reactions rather than sound economical and scientific based fact. Including but not limited to constraining production, constraining egress, not allowing building of nuclear and other base load power solutions.

Actually, the SMEs in government have a really good idea on these challenges and the entirety of the energy eco-system. The problem is the SMEs rarely see their ideas move forward and instead stalled by the corrupt politicians who take money from the industries who care more about short-term profits rather than the long-term health of their companies and the planet itself. Policy routinely runs over SMEs and the solutions that need to be put into play get buried under an avalanche of bad law, bad policy, and bad politics. Nuclear is a perfect example. The only thing holding that back is politics and lobbying money from the fossil fuel collective.

In short, idealists like yourself and Greta are to blame because you do not have an ounce of an idea how energy works and take it for granted. This has lead to public pressure which has lead to poor decisions on investment and regulation.

Thank goodness we have experts like yourself to step in and save the planet. Amiright?

All snark aside, we should be working together to find solutions. Fossil fuels will continue to be a component of any transition to a newer technology and will still remain to be an energy source for the next 50 years, if our society holds together. If it begins to fail, all bets are off and we're probably headed back to the days of the wild west.