BP sold their solar business. I don't remember to who. I agree with what you wrote. It seems kind of funny to me that oil companies are trying to market themselves as being "green" when the primary product they sell is intended to be burned.Interesting piece. But to be fair. The guy conflates "big oil" donations to environmental groups with "support of climate alarmists".. Money from oil companies go to enviro causes of ALL kinds. And granted, even my beloved Nature Conservancy is trying to get donor money by climbing on the climate alarmism bandwagon. But a group like Nature Conservancy or WWF is not a leading edge "science creator". NOT directly involved in research or publishing papers.
ALL companies want to look green and concerned. SOME of that --- might just be genuine. Some of it might be guilt. And still a part might be just cynical PR value. There is also a flawed premise in the vid. That oil companies sponsor GW research and aid climate alarmism because they want to attack coal. Which the guy calls "oil's greatest competitor. This is phoney. Because coal produces electricity and oil (by and large) does not. They are NOT head to head competitors.
The REAL reason oil money shows up in Climate Change science and alarmism, is that the oil companies want to preserve their access to the $BILLs available in subsidies, tax breaks, clean energy credits and other Washington/Paris/Bonn handouts for alternative fuels and renewables. This is a cash cow for them. Until the 2000s -- BP Oil was the world's largest system integrator of solar panels. It was a business that gave them a HEDGE against the volatility of the oil products. And many companies like Dutch Shell have invested heavily in some of the "weirder" renewables like tidal power demonstrations.
In FACT --- what's better for an oil company's retail gasoline sales than a highly subsidized and MANDATED commodity like corn ethanol to "WATER DOWN" THEIR GASOLINE with.
Whatever the truth might or might not be about climate change it's doubtful this country will change it's energy policy any time soon. We can continue to disperse our over valued money and spread our debt around just as long as dollars continue to be the primary international currency for buying petroleum.I've seen big oil's name on the credits for DOZENS of papers on the effects of Global Warming. Papers that are "pro warming", but stop short of screeching about death and destruction predictions. OTH -- I've only seen 2 or 3 renown GW scientists who accepted big oil money to write "skeptical" papers about GW.
I love it when a faithful catastrophic GW believer shoves a paper in my face and I find Shell Oil on the credits.
Makes them rethink the program and the players in this complicated "industry".
Whatever the truth might or might not be about climate change it's doubtful this country will change it's energy policy any time soon. We can continue to disperse our over valued money and spread our debt around just as long as dollars continue to be the primary international currency for buying petroleum.I've seen big oil's name on the credits for DOZENS of papers on the effects of Global Warming. Papers that are "pro warming", but stop short of screeching about death and destruction predictions. OTH -- I've only seen 2 or 3 renown GW scientists who accepted big oil money to write "skeptical" papers about GW.
I love it when a faithful catastrophic GW believer shoves a paper in my face and I find Shell Oil on the credits.
Makes them rethink the program and the players in this complicated "industry".
Mr. Flacaltenn, you are full of shit. Nuclear is the most expensive of all, when factoring in the waste. And it is intensively government supported. Also a point source, vulnerable at it's source and in transmission of the power. Like hell there is not a big nuclear lobby. That is the ideal situation for the utilities and the companies that make the very expensive equipment used in the plants.Whatever the truth might or might not be about climate change it's doubtful this country will change it's energy policy any time soon. We can continue to disperse our over valued money and spread our debt around just as long as dollars continue to be the primary international currency for buying petroleum.I've seen big oil's name on the credits for DOZENS of papers on the effects of Global Warming. Papers that are "pro warming", but stop short of screeching about death and destruction predictions. OTH -- I've only seen 2 or 3 renown GW scientists who accepted big oil money to write "skeptical" papers about GW.
I love it when a faithful catastrophic GW believer shoves a paper in my face and I find Shell Oil on the credits.
Makes them rethink the program and the players in this complicated "industry".
The only viable alternative to maintaining our civilized way of life is really nuclear. And it would be the most effective hedge against GW and reduce actual pollution at the same time. There is no "big nuclear" to lobby and game the system. So the stalemate comes about because wind and solar are NOT real "alternatives". They are supplements. And their costs SHOULD include the MANDATORY capacity to bring on line coal and gas when the supplements take the day or the week off. It's false expectations that keep this public propaganda campaign on the road.
OIL --- has no place in the discussion about "renewables". They do NOT compete. It's a separate discussion about power for transportation. And adding capacity ON GRID for Electric vehicles is a non-starter. Because you do not EXPAND electricity generation with supplements like wind/solar. It's only being sold now because DEMANDS have fallen everywhere in the world except China and a couple other Asian countries.
If folks want to play this GW game of pushing wind/solar to it's limits, it will be a very expensive and maybe lethal exercise.. Show down time at the OK corral..
