Most inhabitants plan to live on this planet for the foreseeable future. Any employee, owner/operator, supporter and/or any others who still think the petrochemical industry is/was a good idea can just go fuck themselves. Maybe do a little cleanup work out on the Pacific Plastic Patch. Nice work Oil ‘n Gas – the transition is in progress. Get your ducks in a row and move on.
“It’s uneconomical to drill right now,” Baker says. “Oil and gas will cry bloody murder but right now they’re not drilling, because they can’t afford to.”
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It’s OBE. (O)vercome (B)y (E)vents – Obsolete, supplanted by technology, like every other bygone industrial complex of the past century. Scale it back to a specialty/cottage industry as appropriate. I’m gonna miss my modded diesels, but I’ll pay the called-for price just to warm them up once in awhile, if that’s what it takes. Starting to look forward to that first all-electric car. Never thought I’d say that.
Political and corporate apologists wrangling for position on the back of an industry in decline for more than a decade at the expense of ecological disaster are scum-sucking parasites.
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