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andy.carey@uwclub.net's avatar

The top 10 companies are described as State owned

Saudi, China, India, Iran dominate those businesses.

So it is possible that consumers are not in the driving seat in these countries and subsidies and planning opportunities are designed to send consumers to the state operator. Or be cold. Or hot in the case of Aramco. So the government's at fault.

Tim Hammond's avatar

They lie about it because they want to destroy capitalism, not because they want to stop climate change. If we could definitively prove climate change wasn't caused by CO2 emissions, they would still be trying to shut down oil companies, as they have bedn doing since the 1960s. They just co-opt the silly middle class Green leaners by referencing climate change.

Paul Cassidy's avatar

Exactly. You can’t create your communist nirvana at the ballot box so you have to persuade people that science demands a course of action to save the planet that creates the communist nirvana as a by product. Only you don’t mention that last bit as people might lose their enthusiasm.

A clever ruse while it lasted but as the nirvana of shortages, cold & penury looms more visibly the scheme is starting to fall apart. Finally. It’s just unfortunate that we’ve gone so far down the road of damage before reaching this point. Some of us saw through it all two decades ago.

Mike Mellor's avatar

Abracadabra, shazam, hocus-pocus, hokum-pokum, Back in medieval times these guys wouldn't have been out there doing warrior stuff with swords and maces. They would have been back at the castle inventing new spells that contained the magic words "climate change."