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I mean, read the current top sibling comment to yours. Someone who worked at an oil & gas company confirmed that this was their strategy.

Now, I don't think these people are sitting in their carved-out mountain lair, scheming to destroy the world; I'm sure they don't see themselves as villains. But they are making deliberate decisions to protect their business models and bottom line by adopting -- and, importantly, lobbying for -- technology that is polluting and emits greenhouse gases.




Wind and solar power heavily depend on fossil backup plants which is why oil companies have long been proponents of the energy transition.

The only technology that is actually able to get rid of fossil technology is nuclear power.




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