I have always heard politicians talking about oil in the context of “national security”. “We need oil to be secure”. It’s incredible to me how infrequently I’ve heard people talk about how dependence on fossil fuels is the security threat. If we had a majority-renewable energy economy right now, most Americans still wouldn’t be able to find the Strait of Hormuz on a map.
O&G sales people always say we need them and we can’t live without them and they’re the reason anything exists and they prevent the middles ages and they’re so important we owe them our lives and so on. All they really want if for you to pay them forever. It’s our job to increase our quality of life while phasing them out gradually (energy transition).
It’s because those words were sponsored by oil lobbyists and their offshoots. So much of the economy is based on it that it might actually be accurate (not that I think it should be perpetuated even if it would be painful to truly move on from oil).
I have always heard politicians talking about oil in the context of “national security”. “We need oil to be secure”. It’s incredible to me how infrequently I’ve heard people talk about how dependence on fossil fuels is the security threat. If we had a majority-renewable energy economy right now, most Americans still wouldn’t be able to find the Strait of Hormuz on a map.
O&G sales people always say we need them and we can’t live without them and they’re the reason anything exists and they prevent the middles ages and they’re so important we owe them our lives and so on. All they really want if for you to pay them forever. It’s our job to increase our quality of life while phasing them out gradually (energy transition).
It’s because those words were sponsored by oil lobbyists and their offshoots. So much of the economy is based on it that it might actually be accurate (not that I think it should be perpetuated even if it would be painful to truly move on from oil).