Why no president has slowed the U.S. oil boom

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2. We need to quit lying to ourselves. The "energy transition" isn't real.

When this "energy transition" is promoted by fossil fuel companies and institutions supported by fossil fuel companies it's absolutely fraudulent.

Sure, we can replace coal power plants with hybrid natural gas / solar / wind systems, and we can replace gasoline and diesel powered vehicles with electrics, but then what? Fossil fuels are still an essential component of such an economy. As more and more people throughout the world achieve some sort of affluence the demand for fossil fuels only increases.

We humans have become dependent on high density energy resources and historically that's been fossil fuels.

Like it or not, the only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely is nuclear power.

If we truly want to quit fossil fuels we need to start building nuclear power plants assembly line fashion and we need to start banning the use of fossil fuels for certain uses as these new nuclear power plants come online.

We also ought to be reducing the number of automobiles. This planet cannot support a personal automobile for every adult human, no matter what those automobiles are powered by. We need to be rebuilding our cities, turning them into affordable attractive places where automobile ownership is unnecessary.

Both these ideas are a tough sell, even here on Democratic Underground.