Many of you are missing the point here. It’s not just the oil companies. The main source of cheap electricity across the world is not oil or gas. It’s Coal.

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Coal fights the hardest and the dirtiest among all the energy lobbies — remember they are in the fight not only to stay in production so they are Anti-AGW but they are also in other battles to keep cleaner sources from coming online. So you can track back grants from coal companies to Environmental groups and coalitions for anti-nuclear agit prop over the last thirty years, and you can find Unions in it up to their neck as well.

Every smidge of a percent point of market share is worth hundreds of billions of dollars to them.