I have always heard politicians talking about oil in the context of “national security”. “We need oil to be secure”. It’s incredible to me how infrequently I’ve heard people talk about how dependence on fossil fuels is the security threat. If we had a majority-renewable energy economy right now, most Americans still wouldn’t be able to find the Strait of Hormuz on a map.
It’s because those words were sponsored by oil lobbyists and their offshoots. So much of the economy is based on it that it might actually be accurate (not that I think it should be perpetuated even if it would be painful to truly move on from oil).
I have always heard politicians talking about oil in the context of “national security”. “We need oil to be secure”. It’s incredible to me how infrequently I’ve heard people talk about how dependence on fossil fuels is the security threat. If we had a majority-renewable energy economy right now, most Americans still wouldn’t be able to find the Strait of Hormuz on a map.
It’s because those words were sponsored by oil lobbyists and their offshoots. So much of the economy is based on it that it might actually be accurate (not that I think it should be perpetuated even if it would be painful to truly move on from oil).
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That’s radical lefty stuff. You see people like Rep. Sean Casten talking that way but not anybody who wants to be seen as “moderate.”