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minus-squareMongostein@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 days agoOil companies had their chance to rebrand to energy companies, start producing green energy, and keep all the money. Fuck em.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoEven if they invested all their income into wind and solar, oil companies were never going to stop sucking oil out of the ground.
minus-squareMongostein@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoWell yeah, but we don’t even need to get rid of oil completely; plastic is too useful. But we need to stop relying on oil for everything. They only continue at the scale they do through corruption.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoOnly the price of oil going to 0 will stop oil companies sucking the ground dry. If oil were $10 there would be much less corruption.
Oil companies had their chance to rebrand to energy companies, start producing green energy, and keep all the money. Fuck em.
Even if they invested all their income into wind and solar, oil companies were never going to stop sucking oil out of the ground.
Well yeah, but we don’t even need to get rid of oil completely; plastic is too useful. But we need to stop relying on oil for everything.
They only continue at the scale they do through corruption.
Only the price of oil going to 0 will stop oil companies sucking the ground dry.
If oil were $10 there would be much less corruption.