Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal

Archived version: https://archive.ph/n97OR

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    3 months ago

    The end user doesn’t care if their house is warmed by a gas furnace or an electric heat pump, so long as their house is warm and it’s affordable.

    Those 57 companies are the ones that don’t want to change and they lobby, bribe, lie, cheat and steal to keep their hold on the market.

    Those 57 companies are both the root cause of the problem and the easiest thing to change.

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      Yes but you still need to implement that change. You have to change millions of people’s houses to switch their type of heating And replace cars, etc It will require huge changes for individuals, you can’t just turn off the big oil companies as nice as it would be to have a simple fix

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        Oil companies are the reason we haven’t already made the change to electric transportation and renewable energy decades ago.

        It could have already happened if it wasn’t for these companies trying to prevent it.

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          That isn’t exactly related to what we’re taking about. I’m not saying stopping the use of oil is bad, I’m saying it requires changes for the individual

          Yes oil companies have lobbied, you also have people in industry that aren’t going to vote to remove their own jobs either. Makes it tricky. I don’t think we should have allowed companies to get away with this btw but historically I’m not sure public support would be there

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      You can’t magically change heating source for the whole affected households though. And the end user will definitely care in case of retrofit with the impact of the changeS needed. Plus costs unless you also magically address that but electricity is still very expensive.