re: #107 Naso Tang

There appears to be a very wide assortment of opinions within the fossil fuel industry on how to approach AGW.

Some are accepting it, and trying to figure out how to profit from it. Others seem to be in total denial (e.g., the “CO2 is good for you” crowd.)

My suspicion is that fears over regulation are generalized, and not specific to CO2 emissions per se. There are many reasons for fossil fuel companies to become nervous once people start looking at the details of the industry. Most of us consumers gladly go blindly along just buying the end product - distilled liquids or electricity, without understanding all that goes into the process of creating those products.

The energy industry is the one of the largest industries in the world, and by cash flow may be the largest. Private energy companies are a minority share in this world, with national and local governments being dominant. Perhaps the private companies fear being overtaken by governments. Certainly oil companies are very susceptible to this.

Anyway, companies like Western Fuels are major AGW-science-denier funders. They will do in the short term whatever they see benefits them, even if in the long term many others suffer.