Almost every “Big Oil” company sets aside a lot of money for research and development of ‘clean energy’. Those multi billion dollar companies would go bankrupt if they put even 50% of their assets into ‘clean energy”.

More people die in DUI related car accidents every year than in oil, gas, & coal exploration and recovery.

If the Gulf of Mexico oil & gas industry shutdown completely tomorrow. The state of Florida would go bankrupt due to the lack of tourism. The panhandle is the unofficial redneck vacation capital of the world. A big chunk of those rednecks work in the oilfields. If you make those rednecks unempolyeed then boom goes the Florida economy completely down the John J. Crapper.

I’m not arguing with anything here. There is no doubt fossil fuel is limited even if there is enough natural gas in shales between Pennsylvania and New York to meet the nation’s energy needs for the next 40 years. It will run out eventually, no matter what.

I agree most fuel is nasty if not contained but that just shows it needs to be contained properly.

My one thought which I question is the concept of a “level playing field”. Energy providers have spent decades and trillions of dollars developing the infrastructure to get the energy to the users. Thus the playing field is not level due to the work they have done. There’s two ways to level a field: you can build up the low end or scrape down the high end.

Just consider which you want to do